On the Orkney Islands, for instance, someone wrote in code: “These runes were carved by the most rune-literate man west of the sea”. (Photo: Aslak Liestøl/ Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo) Bragging about literacy and sexīeing good at writing and breaking codes ensured a certain amount of status, and people bragged about their proficiencies. The lines in the beards of these men comprise a message, written in cipher runes.
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His PhD research has taken him to several countries to analyse runic inscriptions dating back as far as 800 AD.Ī rune stick from the Wharf in Bergen testifies to a mischievous use of runic writing. Nordby is the first person to study all the findings of runic codes in Northern Europe, around 80 inscriptions. There were no rune schools then but knowledge of this alphabet could be transferred from generation to generation by linking it to games, poetry, drills and codes, Nordby says.
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The use of the code as a tool in learning is not as odd as it might seem. If you had learned to read and write, you had also learned codes,” says Nordby. That’s why I think they were something people picked up at the same time they learned the runic alphabet. They have turned up all over Scandinavia, the British Isles and other places where runes were used. The codes are found in many forms and contexts. Real-life Vikings and medieval Norse people carved runic codes onto sticks of wood, stones and other objects. But mysterious codes are not just the stuff of fiction and films. (Photo: Ida Kvittingen) Codes in frequent useĪncient codes prompt associations with treasure hunts and conspiracies as depicted in The Da Vinci Code. The Oseberg Ship behind him also contained one of many riddles from the Viking Era. Runologist Jonas Nordby is a code-breaker.
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