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Article: Morten Axboe Die Goldbrakteaten der Volkerwanderungszeit--Herstellungsprobleme und Chronologie.(book)(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2005
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MORTEN AXBOE Die Goldbrakteaten der Volkerwanderungszeit--Herstellungsprobleme und Chronologie. xix+413 pages, 209 figures, 10 tables. 2004. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter; 3-11-018145-2 hardback 148 [euro].
Gold bracteates are a peculiar type of amuletic pendant. They were produced and used over a period of about a century in Scandinavia, whence they spread into adjacent areas of the Continent and around the North Sea to Frisia and England and lived on a little longer. They have proved a potent source of study for archaeologists, philologists and historians of religion in recent decades, matching their significance for the communities that produced, displayed and ...