Review Article: The Final Publication of the Series ‘On the Iconology of the Gold Bracteates’ and Karl Hauck’s Legacy

Abstract

THE AMBITIOUS AND WIDE-RANGING project launched by the late Karl Hauck with the monograph study Goldbrakteaten aus Sievern in 1970 reached a conclusion, although not closure, with the publication of a massive volume of interpretation and evaluation in 2011. This review article seeks not only to review that publication at an appropriate scale, but also to provide a general reflection upon Karl Hauck’s scholarly legacy of practical value to an Anglophone readership.

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1 Professor of Archaeology, Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU, UK. [email protected]

2 Hauck 1970; Hauck et al 1985–59. For a catalogue of Hauck’s supplementary articles Zur Ikonologie der Gold- brakteaten, see <www.uni-muenster.de/Fruehmittelalter/Projekte/Brakteaten/brakt_ik_lit.html> [last accessed 4 February 2013]. The numeration of this series runs to LXIV, but three planned studies (nos III, XXXVII and XLV) were never published.

3 It is not clear if this is merely a misprint. A draft of this chapter was circulated to Hauck’s project colleagues in 1995, when it could have been intended to appear as no LV. What appeared in print as nos LIV and LV in the series were published in 1997 and 1998.

4 Mackeprang 1952. The three volumes of Hauck et al 1985–89 are divided into seven parts. This publication is now available on line through <http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/> (enter ‘Goldbrakteaten’ in the box ‘Einfache Suche’) [last accessed 4 February 2013].

5 Axboe 2004; review by the present author: Hines 2005; Pesch 2007.

6 Karl Hauck, ‘Machttaten Odins. Die Chiffrenwelt der Brakteaten und die Methoden ihrer Auswertung’, 1–60; ‘Die Bildformeln der Goldbrakteaten in ihren Leitvarianten’, 61–152; Charlotte Behr, ‘Forschungsgeschichte’, 153–229.

7 Pesch, ‘Netzwerk der Zentralplätze: Elitenkontakte und Zusammenarbeit frühmittelalterlicher Reichtumszen- trum im Spiegel der Goldbrakteaten’, 231–77.

8 Morten Axboe, ‘Die Chronologie der Inschriften-Brakteaten’, 279–96.

9 Heinrich Beck, ‘Lese- und Deutungsprobleme im Namenschatz des Brakteatencorpus’, 297–315; Gunter Müller, ‘Von der Buchstabenmagie zur Namenmagie in den Brakteateninschriften’, 317–74.

10 Müller, as n 8; Klaus Düwel, ‘Buchstabenmagie und Alphabetzauber: Zu den Inschriften der Goldbrakteaten und ihrer Funktion als Amulette’, 475–523.

11 Klaus Düwel and Sean Nowak, ‘Die semantisch lesbaren Inschriften auf Goldbrakteaten’, 375–473.

12 Wilhelm Heizmann, ‘Die Formelwörter der Goldbrakteaten’, 525–601.

13 Lutz E von Padberg, ‘Reaktionsformen des Polytheismus im Norden auf die Expansion des Christentums im Spiegel der Goldbrakteaten’, 603–34; Tania M Dickinson, ‘Iconography, Social Context and Ideology: The Meaning of Animal-Ornamented Shields in Early Anglo-Saxon England’, 635–86; cf Dickinson 2005.

14 Starkey 1999; cf Heizmann 2007; Wicker and Williams 2012; Oehrl 2012, esp 238–9.

15 The entry published in RGA was eventually written by Morten Axboe (1998).

16 Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, §49. Faulkes 1988, 45–8; 1987, 48–51.

17 Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, §§25 and 34. Faulkes 1988, 25 and 27–8; 1987, 46–51.

18 Turville-Petre 1964, esp 8–27; Clunies Ross 1994, esp 11–41; Schødt 2007.

19 Imer 2012.

20 Heizmann’s discussion of auja in this chapter demonstrates that the philological case for identifying that word as a noun meaning something like ‘good fortune’ and/or ‘security’ is strong.

21 Nielsen 2000.

22 Sigrdrífumál. Neckel and Kuhn 1962, 189–97; Larrington 1996, 166–73. The specific translations of the words offered in this article, however, are those of the present author.

23 Beowulf, line 769. Swanton (1997) is an edition with a helpful, facing-page, Modern English translation, and an authoritative note on ealuscerwen on 192–3.

24 Brooks 1961.

25 Inker 2006, esp 39–40; Clunies Ross 2007.

26 Fuglesang 2002; 2007; Hines 2007.