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More Bronze Age school lessons from
Sweden. Above left, a man holds a shield, which is drawn to form the Tifinag
letter "B," so that the inscription reads from right to left: B-K-L-A = Old Norse bukla = "shield" or "buckler." On the right a bull is led to a cow; the bull's head forms the letter
"B", to yield B-L = Old Norse beli
= "a bull.” The cow is labeled GH-W, apparently for Old Norse ku, the dative case of kyr = "a cow." The text might be translated to mean
"A bull for a cow" or A
bull is led to a cow." Lower left, the sun god Sol holds the consonants that spell his name
S-L; the letters can also be read from right to left, to yield L-S, Old Norse
lysa, giving a palindrome that
becomes Sol lysa = "The sun shines." The first two petroglyphs are from
Bohuslän, the third from Östfold (Fell 1982). |
