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<p>[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 1270344, member: 7826"]As KSW and Holly posted while we trying to translate the inscription, it's obviously some form of -- or meant to look like some form of -- runic ("futhark"), but the characters don't match up consistently with any runic alphabet (Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Norweigian) with which we're familiar. </p><p>We're getting something like </p><p>U H H R H - S M (or Z) R k? R r H K 2 U S </p><p>-- which might be something else entirely in some form of runic created by Tolkien, or an initialism for some phrase known to only the original wearer, or the result of some simple substitution code lettered in runic, or...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 1270344, member: 7826"]As KSW and Holly posted while we trying to translate the inscription, it's obviously some form of -- or meant to look like some form of -- runic ("futhark"), but the characters don't match up consistently with any runic alphabet (Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Norweigian) with which we're familiar. We're getting something like U H H R H - S M (or Z) R k? R r H K 2 U S -- which might be something else entirely in some form of runic created by Tolkien, or an initialism for some phrase known to only the original wearer, or the result of some simple substitution code lettered in runic, or...[/QUOTE]
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