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The king, Woden-lithi, now tells us how long he stayed in
America. The next part of the text
specifies the actual months. Two hieroglyphs occur in this section, one the
five fingers, is merely the numeral 5.
The other, an arm and hand, represents the word mund
(Old Norse, a hand), which in turn is an isophone (punning word sounding the
same as another word) for manad
(Old Norse, month). In this section
the word for "king" (Old Norse konungr)
that was given hieroglyphically at the very start ofthe inscription, is here
spelled out in Tifnag
letters.
The text here reads in a clockwise direction from 1 to 5:
(R-N Old Norse eyna) As a trial the king
(N-N-GN-O-R) lay at anchor (L-GN, Old Norse lagna)
for five (Old
Norse fim) months (M-N-D). This section of the inscription occurs just underneath <bron67> (Fell 1982). |
