Charnay Fibula

Charnay Fibula

▪ French art
      curved silver ornament, dating from the mid-6th century, that bears a runic (runic alphabet) inscription. The Fibula, a type of clasp, was discovered around 1857 in Burgundy, Fr. Its inscription consists of a horizontal line using the first 20 characters of the runic alphabet and two vertical lines that have not been fully interpreted. The Charnay Fibula and an inscribed golden ring unearthed in 1837 in Buzău district, Romania, may be the only known runic texts found in Romance-language regions.

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