page_title: Nordendorf fibulae
section_title: Nordendorf II
hierarchical_section_title: Nordendorf fibulae / Nordendorf II
context_page_description: The Nordendorf fibulae are two mid 6th to early 7th century Alamannic fibulae found in Nordendorf near Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.
  Both fibulae are from the same grave, a woman's grave from an Alemannic cemetery of 448 row graves. They are labelled I and II, and were found in 1843 and 1844, respectively. Both fibulae bear Elder Futhark runic inscriptions. The first inscription is longer, and especially famous because of the explicit mention of theonyms of the South Germanic pantheon; Düwel calls it the "most important runic document of the continent".
  The settlement to which the cemetery was attached was situated right on the important Via Claudia Augusta and presumably owed its wealth to trade.
context_section_description: The second fibula has a short, partly illegible inscription, read as
  ?irl?ioel?
  This has been interpreted as birl[i]n io elk "(little) bear and elk".
caption: The Nordendorf II fibula
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