When does borrowing shapes or letters become their own, after being inspired from another source than their own language? There however lacks an explanation to the divergences in sound values and forms of the characters in this theory. Since also many runes resemble the Roman alphabetical letters, for example how ᚠ, ᚱ and ᚺ resembles the Roman F, R, H. It is a known fact that Germanic people came in close contact with Romans during these times. Since the Romans were the dominating culture during the beginning of our era. It centres around the Romans as the inspirational sources for the futhark.

“The Latin theory” is one of the more accepted theories out of all of these three. These words are old Norse for three and three and ten. On this stone the 3 is carved as “þria” and the 30 is carved as “þria tiugu”. The runestone further covers information on what this father is inheriting from his son, which is 3 farmsteads and 30 coins to gather from a man named Erik. There is a carved down story about a father honouring his dead son. On the “Runestone in Stora Ek”, county of Västergötland, Sweden. Other evidence of that the Iron Age Scandinavians had some kind of numbering system can be found on runestones. There has been many grave goods directly connected to merchant activities such as weights and scales with origins from Iron Age Scandinavia (in for example the Viking age city of Birka and on the island of Gotland). Furthermore it is a necessity to use counting when it comes to everyday tasks such as smithing, weaving and cooking. What we do know however is that the iron age Scandinavians were successful in selling and trading, which shows that there must indeed been a system in place to keep track of various tasks. When it comes to numbers and having a system for that, as with most things in ancient Scandinavia, there is no tutorial of how that system worked documented down anywhere as far as we know of. We are all anxiously awaiting the experts' new interpretations and conclusions about these new finds and their context. This new find has knocked the history books over and history now needs to be rewritten. Maybe this is the work of one person or several, maybe it's made for teaching purposes or as some kind of game? Furthermore, the stones’ ᛖ-rune is earlier thought to have been used as an E-sound on runestones from the 400’s, which this stone again disproves.Įarlier research has presented the 300-400’s as the introduction of runestones in Scandinavia, which the Svingerudstone beats with many years. There’s also different patterns carved on the stone here and there. There is also a peculiar ᛒ-rune in this carving, with 2 ᛒ on top of each other. The archaeologists in Norway have translated the rune carving into “Idiberug”, which is speculated to be a woman's name, or maybe a family name. Since it was carved so long ago, the language it is carved in is so far away from the one that was spoken during the Viking Age, which makes it much harder to translate. It is named after its place of origin and has the name the Svingerudstone.Īround 2000 years ago someone put time and effort into carving these elder futhark runes into this stone, and then putting it into a grave. Which makes it the oldest runestone ever to be found (with proof of its age).

The grave’s insides are dated to around the years 0-250 A.D. Thanks to science and the lovely C-14 method, the archaeologists could successfully date the burned bones and charcoal found next to this stone. In one of the graves containing burned bones and charcoal, they also found a stone. The archaeologists had a task of conducting a dig of a grave field found in Svingerud by the Tyrifjord. What was found in Svingerud, Norway in 2021 is such a discovery. I am sorry, but a play on words was necessary with this happy news! There has been a huge discovery in terms of runestones, and I feel it is my obligation and big pleasure to provide you guys with what we know so far about it!Įvery now and then, scientists make huge discoveries that throw everything written into history books straight out of the window.

Elder futhark rune alphabet translator