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