Early runic inscriptions are the best evidence for the oldest historical development of North Germanic. Yet among the many unexpected features of the inscriptions as they are usually presented is the apparent presence of vowels before glides that seem to occur contrary to Sievers’ Law. These include perhaps most prominently the sequence usually read as <harija> on the Skåäng stone where the Vimose comb preserves the expected form <harja>. Rather than assume that a Neogrammarian sound law is violated in a runic text, a more profitable approach is usually to assume that it is the interpretation that is at fault. Many of the instances where Sievers’ Law vocalizations seem to occur in an aberrant manner are texts that are better explained in manners other than have traditionally been accepted.

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Sievers 定律和 Skåäng 石头

早期的符文铭文是北日耳曼最古老历史发展的最好证据。然而，在通常呈现的铭文的许多意想不到的特征中，元音在滑音前明显存在，这似乎违反了西弗斯定律。其中最突出的可能包括通常在 Skåäng 石头上读为 <harija> 的序列，其中 Vimose 梳子保留了预期的形式 <harja>。与其假设符文文本中违反了新语法的声音法则，更有利可图的方法通常是假设错误是解释。西弗斯定律发声似乎以异常方式出现的许多实例都是以不同于传统方式接受的方式更好地解释的文本。