Weirdness on the highway

[curgoth]

Weird thing seen on the highway today; I was following a dirty truck. I noticed something had been written on the back of the truck in the dirt. Then I realised that it was written in Norse runes. I tried to take a picture with my camera phone, but the camera on it is pretty awful, so one can't even tell that the truck is dirty, let alone see

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[neeuqdrazil]

Only you, my love, only you.

Well, you and night__watch, really.

[dairymilk]

Wow. I'm not sure what's stranger: that it was written in Viking Runes or that you recognized them?

[curgoth]

note: I recognized them. I could not read them, so I have no idea what they said.

[kittentikka]

They've been here as well: Famously, they wrote all over the inner walls of a tomb.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/westmainland/maeshowe/index.html

[curgoth]

Apparently a balustrade in the Hagia Sofia has "Halvdan was here" carved into it.

[concordantnexus]

Also the Piraeus Lion (one of two marble lion statues that guard the gates to the Arsenal, both were looted by Venetians from Greek holdings) - has a lindworm runic inscription

Asmund cut these runes with Asgeir and Thorleif, Thord and Ivar, at the request of Harold the Tall, though the Greeks considered about and forbade it.

Hakon with Ulf and Asmund conquered this port. These men and Harold Hafi imposed a heavy fine on account of the revolt of the Greek people. Dalk is detained captive in far lands. Egil is gone on an expedition with Ragnar into Romania and Armenia.

[mycrazyhair]

Yup. That's insanely cool.

[sylvarthorne]

That's....crazy. But in an awesome way. And Norse runes aren't terribly hard to recognize as such...right?

[curgoth]

They're not too hard to recognize if you have played with them a bit, which I have. I know enough to tell the difference between actual runes and, say, Tolkien dwarven runes, but not enough to tell which rune is which without a reference, and definitely not enough to be able to translate.