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[Bronze Age Text]
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(CLICK to Enlarge) King Woden-lithi's dedication
inscribed just below the image of the war god Tsiw. The text reads from left to right and, by supplying the vowels,
may be pronounced as Wlk halgen Tsiwa
Woden-litya, "The image hallowed to Tsiw by Woden-lithi." The last
two letters of the king's name are given as ogam in a ship rebus. This is also a common feature of
inscriptions at Bronze Age sites in Sweden, where prayers for the
safety of ships are rendered in ogam letters that are fitted together to make
diagrammatic pictures of ships. There
are also connections here with words of modern English (Fell 1982). |
