<bron14.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
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One more athletic event depicted
in the Thorri inscription at Fossum, Bohuslän. The text might read: ganga Köla = "Fight with maces." The footprint hieroglyph ganga (to
walk) represents the same word, but
it is used in the sense of an encounter or fight (ganga has many meanings in Old Norse). The keeled ship to the right is
another punning hieroglyph, where the word kjöl approximates the sound of the word for mace or club, köl.
Were the hieroglyph omitted, the reader would be uncertain about the
included vowel, because only rudimentary vowel signs occur in the Tifnag
script (Fell 1982). |
