Recently deciphered Viking rune hints at a ‘queer’ playfulness to violent Norse culture

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/10/recently-deciphered-viking-rune-hints-at-a-queer-playfulness-to-violent-norse-culture/



Recently deciphered Viking rune hints at a ‘queer’ playfulness to violent Norse culture
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, February 10, 2014 13:39 EST

A runologist doing doctoral work at the University of Oslo has deciphered one of the runic codes used by Vikings and discovered a message, sent between two men, that reads “Kiss me.”

Vikings often wrote in “runic” code on wooden sticks for what scholars believe was a variety of purposes, even if many of them remain obscure to this day.

K. Jonas Nordby cracked the “Jötunvillur code,” which is present on over 80 Norse inscriptions and has long baffled scholars. One of his finds was a 700-year-old stick in which two men, Sigurd and Lavrans, carved their names and wrote a brief message that read “Kiss me.”

Nordby told the Norwegian website forskning.no that those who believe that “deep secrets” will be revealed by his efforts will be disappointed. “We have little reason to believe that rune codes should hide sensitive messages, people often wrote short everyday messages,” he said.

[TygrBright]

1. Got the tense wrong on the second word, probably the 3rd word was lost over time....

Of course, I'm only going by what I know of today's Aryan Supermen, who might easily carve the same message:

"Kiss my _____"

's OK, it's just the first translation attempt.

waggishly,
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