| 11. | Many of the bracteates feature ruler portraits of Germanic pagan icons giving protection or for divination.
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| 12. | It was used to produce some very fine goldsmith work including filigree collars and bracteate pendants.
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| 13. | For this reason the bracteates are a target of iconographic studies by scholars interested in Germanic religion.
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| 14. | Gold was used to make scabbard mountings and bracteates; notable examples are the Golden horns of Gallehus.
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| 15. | Depictions found on Migration Period Germanic bracteates are often viewed as Wodan ( Odin ) healing a horse.
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| 16. | The bracteate was stolen in 1938 from the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities and has not yet been found.
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| 17. | Racemes are corymbose, densely flowered, ebracteate or rarely lowermost few flowers bracteate, elongated considerably in fruit.
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| 18. | The inflorescence consists of terminal bracteate racemes that are approximately long when young, extending to a long spike.
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| 19. | The inscription seems to belong to the big group of C-bracteates with more or less comprehensible charm words.
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| 20. | Another group of plaques were probably bracteates intended to be sewn onto clothing through the small holes round their edges.
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