The Ellestad stone, inscribed between AD 500 and 700, seems to incorporate encrypted runes
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Folks dwelling in Scandinavia might have written encrypted messages in runes – the alphabet later utilized by the Vikings – a number of centuries sooner than beforehand thought.
In runic writing methods, every rune can signify each a sound and a phrase. For instance, in an early runic system referred to as the Elder Futhark, the rune that corresponds to the letter S additionally means “solar”.
It’s usually doable to translate runes into trendy languages. However we’ve got lengthy recognized that …