I love that the oldest Danish runes ever found is basically the equivalent of sticking a label to your label printer that says "label printer". Also I am choosing to believe that there was a...
I love that the oldest Danish runes ever found is basically the equivalent of sticking a label to your label printer that says "label printer".
Also I am choosing to believe that there was a companion weapon that said "big sword" on it.
Edit: I should add that I have some experience of this sort of thing. Viking smiths were incredibly knowledgeable and skilled but engraving is a whole different skillset (other than using a hammer). Even runes, which are pretty easy because they're all straight lines, are fairly hard to engrave. So I am - with no reason other than for fun and with zero historical evidence other than it's exactly what I'd do - imagining the smith who made this knife was learning to engrave and was just putting words onto on everything for practice. Somewhere there's a horseshoe which says "horse" on it, an axe that says "tree killer" and so on.
I love that the oldest Danish runes ever found is basically the equivalent of sticking a label to your label printer that says "label printer".
Also I am choosing to believe that there was a companion weapon that said "big sword" on it.
Edit: I should add that I have some experience of this sort of thing. Viking smiths were incredibly knowledgeable and skilled but engraving is a whole different skillset (other than using a hammer). Even runes, which are pretty easy because they're all straight lines, are fairly hard to engrave. So I am - with no reason other than for fun and with zero historical evidence other than it's exactly what I'd do - imagining the smith who made this knife was learning to engrave and was just putting words onto on everything for practice. Somewhere there's a horseshoe which says "horse" on it, an axe that says "tree killer" and so on.