Feb

17

A good article (for Valentine's Day) on how a 900-year old rune inscription was deciphered that read "kiss me".

'Why did Vikings sometimes use codes when they wrote in runes? Were the messages secret, or did they have other reasons for encrypting their runic texts? Researchers still don't know for sure.

But Runologist K. Jonas Nordby thinks he has made progress toward an answer. He has managed to crack a code called jötunvillur, which has baffled linguists and historians for years.

His discovery can help researchers understand the purpose behind the mystery codes. "It's like solving a riddle," says Nordby.

"After a while I started to see a pattern in what appeared to be meaningless combinations of runes," he says. '


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