Bergakker is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Gelderland . It is a part of the municipality of Tiel , and lies about 2 km west of Tiel.
4-472: Bergakker is known for the Bergakker sword sheath , which was found in a field in 1996. It was first mentioned in 1899 as Bergakker, and means "farmland on a hill". The hamlet consists of about 80 houses. This Gelderland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bergakker sword sheath The Bergakker inscription is an Elder Futhark inscription discovered on
8-433: Is a non-standard rune, apparently a vowel (variously read as e or u , or as "any vowel"), and * represents an unknown rune. Several readings have been presented in literature. There seems to be a consensus that the ann is the past tense of unnan , corresponding to Modern Dutch gunnen , which means "give/bestow/grant". Several authors read the first word as a personal name in the genitive (indicating property), and
12-556: The scabbard of a 5th-century sword . It was found in 1996 in the Dutch town of Bergakker , in the Betuwe , a region once inhabited by the Batavi . There is consensus that the find dates from the period 425-475 and that the inscription is either the singular direct attestation of Frankish (Franconian), or the earliest attestation of Old Dutch (Old Low Franconian). Runic writing at
16-551: The time was used along the North Sea coast, in Frisia , but there are very few other extant inscriptions from Francia . The inscription can be read as ᚺᚨ?[V]ᚦ[V]**ᛋ h(a?)þ(V)**s ᛬ : ᚨᚾᚾ ann ᛬ : ᚲ[V]ᛋᛃᚨᛗ k(V)sjam ᛬ : ᚺᚨ?[V]ᚦ[V]**ᛋ ᛬ ᚨᚾᚾ ᛬ ᚲ[V]ᛋᛃᚨᛗ ᛬ h(a?)þ(V)**s : ann : k(V)sjam : ᛬ : ᛚᛟᚷ[V]ᚾᛋ log(V)ns ᛬ : ᛬ ᛚᛟᚷ[V]ᚾᛋ ᛬ : log(V)ns : where V
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