<bron68.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
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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). |
