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[Bronze Age Text]
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At Fossum,
Bohuslän, Sweden, there is a
large inscription that depicts scenes from the great
winter festival called Thorri, held in the 4th month
of the Norse 6-month winter. These are some of the
vignettes.
Top, the symbol of
Thorri formed from the
Tifinag letters th, r
and n, repeated and arranged to
make a thunderbolt design.
Old Norse Thorinn =
"The Thorri festival."
Middle, ceremonies
open at dawn when trumpet-
blowers summon the people.
The Tifinag letters are
interwoven with the picture, and the word gamga is
represented by a punning hieroglyph of footprints, also
pronounced as ganga. The text reads R-R GANGA
L-D-R M-N, to be read as Old Norse Arar ganga
ludramenn
= "Early morning the sound of trumpet-
blowers."
Below, a scene from
the hockey or ball game, K-L
= Old Norse kula =
"ball game." (Fell 1982).