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A prayer to the earth-mother, Goib
Dia Beanu leas fasan = "Pray to
Beanu that the corn may grow." The
inscription was cut into the lava rock face at a Norse Iberian site at East
Peninsula, Tule Lake, CA. It is common at this site to find separate staves of letters such as "n", "c" and "r" (which use 5 staves each) joined in a zigzag manner as shown here. Scribes at this site also transferred the arris above or below the characters if there is a long sequence of lower- or upper-case letters. In this example the transition from a medial stem line to one that passes above the line is shown well. The word dia (= goddess) seems to have been inserted as an afterthought as it is crammed into the oi. |
