The first recorded instance of the name of the god appears in the Migration Period, where a piece of jewelry ( a fibula ), the Nordendorf fibula, dating from the 7th century AD and found in Bavaria, bears an Elder Futhark inscription that contains the name " Þonar ", i. e. " Donar ", the southern Germanic form of the god's name.

The oldest known texts in Alemannic are brief Elder Futhark inscriptions dating to the 6th century ( Bülach fibula, Pforzen buckle, Nordendorf fibula ).

It has been suggested that in these instances, it represents the ch / χ / sound resulting from the Old High German sound shift ( e. g. elch in Nordendorf II ).

A spectacular find in 2006 was the richly detailed bronze and silver brooch ( fibula ) modeled with the figure of Mars, on which Quintus Sollonius, a Gaul to judge by his name, had carefully punched his name before he lost it in the early second century ; nothing comparably fine has been recovered along the Wall.

The fibula, a form of a brooch, was invented by the Myceaneans on the Greek Peloponnesus between the 13th and 14th Century BC, and is considered an early precursor to a safety pin since they were used in a similar manner.

Other early Anglo-Saxon items found at Reculver include a fragment of a gilt bronze brooch, or " fibula ", which was originally circular and set with coloured stones or glass, a claw beaker, and pottery.

In the opening round in summer 1953, they won their only competitive away match, beating Norway 3 – 2 in Oslo after trailing 0 – 2, and with only 10 effective players, after an early substitute due to injury, and Theodor Puff staying on the field with a broken fibula.

His season was curtailed in early May when he suffered a fractured fibula against Charlton Reserves.

Having lost their starting quarterback ( Randall Cunningham ) to a fractured fibula early in the contest, the Eagles found themselves trailing the Jets by two points late in the 4th quarter as the Jets drove downfield for what would likely be the game's final points.

The " leek " hypothesis is based not on the rune poems, but rather on early inscriptions where the rune has been hypothesized to abbreviate * laukaz, a symbol of fertility, see the Bülach fibula.

He ended his season early in May against Copenhagen, following an early substitution it was revealed that he suffered a fracture in his fibula.

Parker suffered a broken right fibula early in a game against the St. Louis Rams on December 20, 2007, ending his season.

Concepción had been named to the NL All-Star team, but on July 22, two days before the game he broke his ankle ( sliding into 3rd base after moving from first base with Dennis Menke base hit against the Expos in the bottom of the 7th inning at Riverfront, fracturing the fibula of left leg ) and missed the second half of the year.

The fibula was thought to originate from the 7th century BC.

The Praenestine fibula was once thought to be the earliest surviving evidence of the Latin language dating to the 7th century BC, but has been alleged by Margherita Guarducci to have been a well-informed hoax ; however, the evidence is only circumstantial and there are no clear indications pointing to a forgery.

* A gold fibula, part of the " Lydian treasures " found in the former Lydian kingdom, made in the second half of the sixth century BC.

A 6th century bow fibula ( brooch ) | fibula found in northeastern France and the Rhineland.

The two long bones of the lower leg, the tibia and fibula, are connected to the top of the talus to form the ankle.

The tibia and fibula bones are also separate making it probable that Triadobatrachus was not an efficient leaper.

The major ( long ) bones of the human leg are the femur ( thighbone ), tibia ( shinbone ), and fibula ( the smaller, rear calf bone ).

Similarly, in the lower leg, structures near the tibia ( shinbone ) are tibial and structures near the fibula are fibular ( or peroneal ).

The tibia and the fibula are partially fused in all talpids.

Despite the marked similarities between Leptictis and Leptictidium, there are certain differences in their skeletons which prevent the example of Leptictis from being used to determine with certainty the way Leptictidium moved: the most important being that, unlike Leptictis, the tibia and the fibula of Leptictidium were not fused together.

Both hands are the fibula of the person's right leg.

Still, doubts persist, and scholars are careful to point this out whenever the fibula is used as evidence for Archaic Latin.

The Crurotarsi ( name derived from the Latin words crus and tarsus ; it refers to the specialized articulation between crus and tarsus — specifically between fibula and calcaneum — present in the skeletons of suchians and phytosaurs, with a hemicylindrical condyle on the calcaneum articulating against fibula ) are a group of archosauriformes, represented today by the crocodiles, alligators, and gharials ( and possibly birds ) and including many extinct forms.

A runic inscription on a fibula found at Bad Ems reflects Christian pious sentiment ( and is also explicitly marked with a Christian cross ), reading god fura dih deofile ᛭ (" God for / before you, Theophilus!

" The attending Roman guards could only leave the site after the victim had died, and were known to precipitate death by means of deliberate fracturing of the tibia and / or fibula, spear stab wounds into the heart, sharp blows to the front of the chest, or a smoking fire built at the foot of the cross to asphyxiate the victim.

According to Blackman one of the tools to diagnose compartment syndrome is X-ray to show a tibia / fibula fracture, which when combined with numbness of the extremities is enough to confirm the presence of compartment syndrome.

A ham hock is the joint between the tibia / fibula and the metatarsals of the foot, where the foot was attached to the hog's leg.

The leg of a plantigrade mammal includes the bones of the upper leg ( femur / humerus ) and lower leg ( tibia and fibula / radius and ulna ).

This joint may include articulations between tarsal bones and the fibula in some species ( such as cats ), while in others the fibula has been greatly reduced and is only found as a vestigial remnant fused to the distal portion of the tibia ( as in horses ).

Extensor digitorum longus arises on the lateral tibial condyle and along the fibula to be inserted on the second to fifth digits and proximally on the fifth metatarsal.

The word fibula can be dated back to c. 1670 to describe a clasp or brooch, and was first used in English for the smaller bone in the lower leg c. 1706.

A brooch, also known in ancient times as a fibula, is a decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments, often to hold them closed.

Among the Whydah artifacts recovered by Barry Clifford were a shoe, silk stocking and fibula bone determined to be from to a child between 8 and 11 years old, most likely belonging to John King.

The holotype ( IPHG 1922 X46 ), of an individual estimated to be about 11 m ( 36 ft ) long and weighing about 2. 8 tons, consisted of a partial skull ( including a maxilla lacking nasal process, a nasal, and a parietal ), teeth, cervical and caudal vertebrae, a manual ungual, an ilium, a pubis (> 800 mm ), a 1. 26 m ( 4. 1 ft ) long femur, and a fibula ( 880 mm ).

Abalos and Pirosky ( 1963 ) considered this species to be responsible for many of the total number of snakebite cases in Argentina and included a picture of a young boy, bitten below the knee, with the bare fibula and tibia exposed.

The injury was severe enough that an inflatable splint had to be brought out onto the field to stabilize the leg and Krumrie was diagnosed with a broken tibia and fibula.

The fibula is ossified from three centers, one for the shaft, and one for either end.

Wilfred Lambert ( 1968 ) identified a fibula with a Pazuzu head at Megiddo and also a Sumerian-Akkadian invocation.