<bron6a.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
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Detail from a Bronze Age
ship Petroglyph originally published by the Sjöfartsmuseum (Halldin
1941). The Tifnag
inscription reads clockwise to
yield an archaic Nordic text matching Old Norse kogge hval, while the large letters BR area relic of late
Neolithic hieroglyphs depicting a buckler, bukla, and a ring, hringr. Thus, the first of which became the
Tifinag letters, were originally to bead as a punning simulation of words
meaning, "thrust out [to sea] at launching.” Thus, Fell (1982) believed
that the whole inscription is probably a memorial to the launching of the
seagoing ship Leviathan. |
