Vikings' Secret Code Cracked

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 13, 2014 @05:36AM from the join-for-coffee-in-denmark-love-ingrid dept.

sciencehabit writes "What may look like mere scratches is much more. A 900-year-old Viking code known as jötunvillur has been cracked. The code-cracker, runologist Jonas Nordby from the University of Oslo, deciphered the system after realizing he needed to replace the original runic character with the last sound used to pronounce it. For instance, the runic character 'k' is pronounced 'kaun,' so k becomes n. Nordby believes secret messages were created by the Vikings for entertainment. One piece of wood reads: 'Kiss me.'"

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Interesting by GameboyRMH · 2014-02-13 05:49 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah so that big far bikini it soars!
(Missed first post by this much!)

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Re:Fuck beta and the horse it rode in on! by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · 2014-02-13 06:13 · Score: 4, Funny

"Eat me, I'm Danish."
Re:The cypher by O-Deka-K · 2014-02-13 08:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Let's do this for Japanese!
a - a, ka - a, sa - a, ta - a, na - a, ha - a, ma - a, ya - a, ra - a, wa - a
i - i, ki - i, shi - i, chi - i, ni - i, hi - i, mi - i, ri - i, etc...
n -> n
Decipher these words/phrases:
oaouoaiau
aiaouoaiau
oniia
aaaai