Unique Viking Runes Discovered In Denmark

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Science Nordic
Jan 15 2018

@truth_seeker

[excerpt]

http://sciencenordic.com/unique-viking-runes-discovered-denmark

A comb with a runic inscription of the word “comb,” perhaps doesn’t sound so sensational. But it is.

The comb dates to the early Viking Age around 800 CE. Just a handful of runic texts from this period exists.

The comb was discovered during excavations of a Viking Age market place in Denmark’s oldest town Ribe.

Alongside the comb, archaeologists also discovered a runic inscription on a small plate of bone or antler.

Together, the two objects reveal details from a crucial period of Viking history, says archaeologist and excavation leader Søren Sindbæk from Aarhus University, Denmark.

“These are the runes we’ve been missing. We’ve waited generations to be able to dig into this,” says Sindbæk.



Anyone else want in on the Viking ping Thing?

BTW: 'Thing' in the original defined a political/geographic area overseen by a Chieftain.

It covered turf, legal responsibilities of the Chieftain, and his 'Thingmen'. (everyone who was part of his Chieftaincy)

Courts were referred to as 'Thing', meaning a legal proceeding Assembly of the Thingmen.

[240B]

I doubt it. Those runes are almost certainly somebody's name. Why would anyone write the 'comb' on a comb?
Did they write the word 'cup' on their cups? Did they write the word 'sword' on their swords.


I am in no position to disagree with a respected runologist, but I do. I disagree with her finding based solely on common sense.

[truth_seeker]

I doubt it. Those runes are almost certainly somebody's name. Why would anyone write the 'comb' on a comb?
Did they write the word 'cup' on their cups? Did they write the word 'sword' on their swords.


I am in no position to disagree with a respected runologist, but I do. I disagree with her finding based solely on common sense.

These folks were pretty simple, even common. In America some were known as "dumb Swedes."

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

I doubt it. Those runes are almost certainly somebody's name. Why would anyone write the 'comb' on a comb?
Did they write the word 'cup' on their cups? Did they write the word 'sword' on their swords.


I am in no position to disagree with a respected runologist, but I do. I disagree with her finding based solely on common sense.

Hi @240B

Vikings were obsessed with decorating everything they made. And while it's possible, could be the maker just didn't have anything deeper to say on this one. :)


However, My guess is that this maker was doing more than just combs.

This piece Could have been marked by them to distinguish it from part of another item they were making as they stacked up on his/her work bench, like a Handle for a flensing tool to scrape the inside of raw animal hides clean of flesh and fat before assembling it and riveting it, as a handle, to a piece of sharpened bone.

And the video also suggests that it could have been a personal name "Tobi".

The old language itself is highly inflected, and words we use today, concepts, are totally missing in it, while others serve multiple meanings we don't associate with them.

[GtHawk]

I doubt it. Those runes are almost certainly somebody's name. Why would anyone write the 'comb' on a comb?
Did they write the word 'cup' on their cups? Did they write the word 'sword' on their swords.


I am in no position to disagree with a respected runologist, but I do. I disagree with her finding based solely on common sense.

Ever see someone put a license plate frame that says Porsche on their Porsche?