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Subject:Stone inscription with a runic like writing
Posted By: Enigmatic writing on a red stone Fri, Oct 02, 2015 IP: 37.138.239.189

Hello community,
recently I have bought a red stone with a mysterious scripture. It looks like a runic writing.
The stone weights 878 gram, is about 17 cm long, max. 7 cm broad and max. 5 cm thick.
I am quite sure that a knowledgable member in this forum has an idea about its possible origin.
Karl



Subject:Re: Stone inscription with a runic like writing
Posted By: Tom McLean Sat, Oct 03, 2015

Google "runes." You'll find they're Norse and are read when the stone is horizontal. Hope someone can decipher it. Fascinating!

Subject:Re: Stone inscription with a runic like writing
Posted By: Runic alphabet Mon, Oct 05, 2015

Hello Tom,
thank you very much for your simple but informative advice. The horizontal reading was the key! Because the stone has a flat site I considered it as the base. What a missdirection.

May be that I can now transcribe the runic inscription. The translation will be another task.

For all who wish to learn more on alphabets of the world here is a fascinating site.
that I have found after Tom's hint. Try "runic" at the index page for example.

Karl

URL Title :Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages



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