File:Bracteate from Funen, Denmark (DR BR42).jpg

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English: The Funen bracteate (DR BR42 = DR IK58), found in Funen, Denmark. The runic inscription is read as:
houaz laþu aaduaaaliia a--

or alternatively

houaz / laþu aa duaaalii(a) / al(u)
According to the display at the National Museum of Denmark, houaz is interpreted as "The High One", a name of Odin.
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Looijenga 1997 transliterates it as mirror-writing "horaz laþu aeraalius alu", for "horaz laþu Aurelius alu", meaning Latin 'invitation to the cult of' Carus Aurelius Pius, the emperor Marcus Aurelius Carus.


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