ooliTIL about a 8 Centuries-Old Mystery Sword Inscription
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“The pointy end goes into the other man.”
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cabbageVan Hasselt said he thinks the blade’s inscription has religious ties that are written in Latin.
...if it's written in Latin, couldn't they just read it? What is it I'm missing here, making this theory somehow worth reporting?
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20639
tl;dr it isn’t Latin Latin - a lot of swords had tons of odd spellings and there are theories about why that is. This sword could be a combo of acronyms of Latin words and possibly spelling errors.
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