The Charnay Fibula is a mid-6th century

fibula The fibula or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones and, in proportion to its length, the most slender of all the long bones. Its upper extremity i ...

or brooch which was discovered in Burgundy in 1857. It has a

runic inscription A runic inscription is an inscription made in one of the various runic alphabets. They generally contained practical information or memorials instead of magic or mythic stories. The body of runic inscriptions falls into the three categories of E ...

consisting of a horizontal partial listing of the first twenty of the twenty-four rune sequence of the Elder Futhark: :fuþarkgwhnijïpzstbem The full listing of the elder futhark is known from the inscription on the

Kylver Stone The Kylver stone, listed in the Rundata catalog as runic inscription G 88, is a Swedish runestone which dates from about 400 AD. It is notable for its listing of each of the runes in the Elder Futhark. Description The Kylver stone was found duri ...

(early 5th century). The shape of the ''z'' rune

algiz Algiz (also Elhaz) is the name conventionally given to the "''z''-rune" of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet. Its transliteration is ''z'', understood as a phoneme of the Proto-Germanic language, the terminal ''*z'' continuing Proto-Indo-Europ ...

and the ''p'' rune

peorð is the rune denoting the sound ''p'' (voiceless bilabial stop) in the Elder Futhark runic alphabet. It does not appear in the Younger Futhark. It is named peorð in the Old English rune poem, Anglo-Saxon rune-poem and glossed enigmatically as f ...

differ somewhat from that of other known elder futhark inscriptions. The missing four final runes of the row (lŋdo) seem to be cut off because there was not enough space. The remaining inscription consists of two undeciphered vertical lines, and two short sequences on the lower part of the fibula: ::uþfnþai:id :dan:liano: :ïia :kr One published interpretation makes this mean "May Liano discover (be led to) Iddan", supposedly in the Burgundian language. The inscription would here appear to be a charm to obtain a lover. The same authors read the remaining two sequences as "Chr st Iaô", an abbreviation for Christ and a

Gnostic Gnosticism (from grc, γνωστικός, gnōstikós, , 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems which coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasized pe ...

word for God the Father.

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