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Detail from a Bronze Age ship Petroglyph (Halldin 1941). The Tifnag inscription reads clockwise to yield
and archaic Nordic text matching Old Norse kogge hval, while the large letters BR are a relic of late
Neolithic hieroglyphs depicting a buckler, bukla, and a ring, hringr;
these, the first of what became the Tifnag letters, were originally to be read as
a punning simulation of words meaning "thrust
out [to sea] at launching." Thus, the whole inscription is probably a
memorial to the launching of the seagoing ship Leviathan (Fell 1982). |
