<bron23.htm> [Bronze Age Text]

Before leaving Canada for his home in Norway, King Woden-lithi had engraved the

following landmark in the history of American commerce and scientific measurement at

the Peterborough, Ontario site (Fell 1982):

"THE KING LEAVES BEHIND THESE REPEATED MARKS CORRECTLY CUT FOR

DETERMINING AND COUNTING THE ELL"

It lies 18 ft. east of the sun god. The Scandinavian alen, or ell, was a unit of length, the

length of the forearm (Old Norse oln) from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It

was ca. 18 inches long, varying somewhat in different countries. These marks are the

oldest known standard of measurement for any Nordic land. In later ages the ell came

to signify ca. 45 in.

The words read as follows:

M-L = mal (measurement)

K-U-N-N-GH = Konungr (King)

L-W = lav (leave behind)

K-L-F = klfa (repeated)

M-R-K = merki (marks)

L-K = laki (correct position)

A-K = aka (determine)

R-GN = regna (to reckon)

L-N = aln, oln (the ell, ca 18 in.)

H-GH = hugga (cut, hack)