<bron112.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
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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). |
