From: Haukur Thorgeirsson
Message: 2076
Date: 2002-08-31
> Thank you for the exercise, Haukur. Great job.Thank you, in turn, for your interest and contribution.
> You are correct but I feel it is semantic. The words are directly related.True. The English word 'carve' has much wider application than the Old Norse
> I chose to translate as 'write' because it's a closer modern root word and
> the meaning is more accurate. I don't know of a instance of the word 'rista'
> being used to mean carving anything other than runes (like carving a statue
> or a turkey), but I am probably mistaken.
> > I inquired back what time and place the runes should be from and gotHmm. The 'kaun' rune is young as well, isn't it?
> > "Norway, mid-8th century". Unfortunately there are very few inscriptions
> > preserved from that time. The closest long inscriptions are probably
> > the Norwegian Eggjum slab, around 700, and the Swedish Rök and Sparlösa
> > stones from around 800. Both Eggjum and Sparlösa use the shape that later
> > was used for 'hagall' to represent 'a'.
>
> That I recognized.
>
> > All three inscriptions use some
> > runes from the older futhark.
>
> From my POV Eggjum is an Elder inscription. The only rune changed is
> 'oss/ansR'.:
> The Eggja Rune Stone (656 Kb)Hmm... I thought there was an old H there somewhere but that
>
> I can't find any Elder runes on Sparlosa. Where are they?:
>> Lazarus - the practice of separating words with dots or other markings was*Goof* 'tis true I greatly overstated the case. It is certainly correct, however,
>> not employed at this early time.
> Not to argue too much but:
> The Vadstena bracteate c.450ce-550ce uses colons as punctuation at the end
> of each aett.
> The Kalleby formulae uses a single dot to separate two phrases/words
> c.400ce-550ce.
> The Roes Stone uses the triple colon from c.750ce.
> The Garbolle box uses a cryptic five dot punctuation mark from c.400ce.
>
> There are more but then I seem like a jerk. I'm just pointing out that
> punctuation was in use before 800ce in a general sense. Now, was it used in
> the region where the inscription was supposed to have taken place in? That
> is another story and one I can't say.
> I really enjoyed this.Very useful indeed!
>
> BTW - here is the awesome site where the runestones pics I posted are from:
> http://home.no.net/ekerilar/