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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Beta? by Dishevel · 2014-02-13 05:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fuck the Beta. And Dice.

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1. Re:Beta? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-13 05:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  And fuck you, jackass.
Fuck beta and the horse it rode in on! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-13 05:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What is the secret code for "Fuck beta"?