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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). |
