Re: Medieval Leadplate with runes found in Skänninge

From: Alan Crozier (alan.crazier_at_telia.com)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:43:53 GMT

"David B" <tronospamchos@tesco.net> wrote in message
news:HVBvd.81$_g5.73@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
> I.E_Johansson wrote in message ...
> >
> >Wasn't it said that Ave Maria prays which AVM on KRS is believed to
> >refer to, wasn't used in Medieval Age Scandinavia.............. :-)
>
> Some may have said that, but the most common objection seems to be that
> there is a severe shortage of medieval examples of the use of the
> _abbreviation_ AVM. Can anybody supply some quotations in context
> (preferably from Scandinavia, but I'll take any)?

Since Scandinavia was a part of the Catholic world in the Middle Ages, the
prayer Ave Maria *must* have been known. It's in the Bible after all. No one
sensible could have claimed that it was not known in medieval Scandinavia
(and no sensible person would imply that anyone had claimed that). As you
say, David, it must be the abbreviation AVM that would be considered
unusual, especially in a runic inscription, and especially in one purporting
to come from medieval Minnesota.

Alan 

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Alan Crozier
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