Abecedarium Nordmannicum

The Abecedarium Nordmannicum ( " nordmanni cal abc" ) is a runic poem from the 9th century. The runic alphabet of the 16 so-called Younger Futhark typigen content is reproduced in connection with building up on the individual runes name simple rhyming mnemonic in Abecedarium.

Reception

Probably Nordic- Danish origin, the Abecedarium was down German mediation in Fulda from Walahfrid Strabo between 825 and written down his death 849. It is the oldest of five rune poems preserved: the Old English from the 10/11, 13 Old Norse and Icelandic dating from the 15th century.. 1457 manuscript was listed in the catalog of the Cathedral Library of Chur. In the 18th century, in 1768, they came into the existence of the Abbey Library of St. Gallen monastery of St. Gallen, where the authors found the runic poem in the manuscript collection Codex Sangallensis 878 on page 321

By chemical treatments with reagents in the 19th century, the text corpus is difficult to read today. Receptions take place under other based on a sign-off by Wilhelm Grimm.

The text, written in Carolingian minuscule, explained in three lines ( rune rows ) and 11 partial rod- end short verses ( alliteration on F, U, Th, R, K, L) the 16 runes of the younger Nordic Futhark in the usual order. Difference consists in the insertion of a rule, the first row ( Aet ) K be adopted here in the first place the second row. In the shape and design of the runes the types correspond to those in the Futhark sequence of the Danish rune stone from Gørlev. Especially in lines 2 and 3 are on the Nordic runes corresponding five ( six in total) Old English runes, and in such runes the lexeme Wreat as the past tense of wrītan write German, inserted. Probably originate the individual Old English runes and the runic word from one and the same hand. The runes are in the form of acrostics as the short verses before, these are defined by so-called " separators ", here by vertical bars, from each other. Language is a mixed language from Old Saxon, Old High German, Old English and Old Norse, therefore, is the object of numerous Abecedarium altgermanistisch - mediävistischer work permit and discourses.

Of the known always very short runic writings, very few from the settlements of the German tribes come in contrast to Scandinavia. Among the German tribes of the use of the runes has been apparently been stored in the period before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. Only in very few manuscripts to the beginning of the German written language and literature, as in Abecedarium or Wessobrunner prayer to find runes.

The Abecedarium is met with the intention of low- writer forth a contemporary scientific and grammatically, antiquarian interest, such as the Hebrew and Greek alphabets, and especially an old English runic alphabet, the Fuþorc subtitled as Anguliscum, included on the same manuscript page 321 immediately before the Abecedarium, point. A suspected function of Abecedarium in the context of the Carolingian mission of Christianity alongside Low German mainly Scandinavian populations is repeatedly scientifically accepted and first introduced by the Belgian and German studies English studies René Derolez in the discussion. The content and the form shows but still the old magical- ritual layer of the Germanic pagan runes spell by the use of terms ( giants, gods ) from the Germanic mythology.

The reception history of Abecedarium Nordmannicum began in the early 19th century with Wilhelm Grimm's treatise. Via the German runes, 1821 In the following decades the Abecedarium was different rezipiert, depending on your perspective as an either or Old High German altsächsisches font and language certificate. This circumstance is the specialized science to date, and is reflected in differentiated mutual respect also to the Old Norse. Karl Müllenhoff and Johan Gallée published at the end of the 19th century in this regard, some with facsimile illustrations, important trade work. Georg Baesecke was 1941 a special working for Abecedarium in the journal of the Runologen Helmut Arntz at. After the Second World War, particularly the works of Bernhard Bischoff and René Derolez new results brought in for research. Bischoff raised by his palaeographical studies show the handwritten authorship Strabo. Derolez examined and rejected the assumption of the earlier research into the authorship of the Abecedarium by Rabanus Maurus from ( Hrabanische runes ). Furthermore Derolez brought the Abecedarium in conjunction with the Carolingian mission for learning a writing system as church political means.

Transmission

Line 1

Line 2

K chaon thanne | H hagal N naut all were | I is J ar S endi sol

It then sticks torch (or ulcer), hail holds emergency, ice, ( good ) year and sun.

Line 3

T, B brica M endi man | L lagu the leotho | Y yral bihabet

Tiu = Tyr, birch and man in the middle, water (lake), this bright, yew completes everything.

(after Klaus Düwel and the reading of René Derolez )

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