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The URL had me wondering but google translate isn't helping, any Norwegian care to explain what the medieval joke possibly was? > – Poenget med å skrive på bei

by mzs 5y ago

The URL had me wondering but google translate isn't helping, any Norwegian care to explain what the medieval joke possibly was? > – Poenget med å skrive på beinet var ikke nødvendigvis å vise eierforhold til det, men kanskje Mård satt der med ledig tid etter å ha reinslikket et bein, og brukte anledningen til å gjøre middagsrestene om til en skrivetavle? > Den andre mulige tolkningen er den litt pussige ordsammensetningen bás-marðarbein, «bås(fjøs)-bukkens bein». Korte runetekster på bein er kjent fra andre norske og skandinaviske middelalderbyer. > – Mǫrðr er i norrønt et poetisk uttrykk for vær eller sauebukk, utover betydningen som rovdyret mår. Nå ser dette ikke ut til å være et værbein, men det kan ikke utelukkes. Og om beinet stammer fra en hest eller ku, så kan være risteren kom med den misvisende innskriften for å underholde? > Osteologiske undersøkelser vil gi svar på om beinet stammer fra en hest, ku eller sau, så om det er ment som humor kan vi foreløpig kun spekulere i. https://www.niku.no/2021/12/unike-runefunn-i-middelalderparken/ https://www.niku.no/2021/12/unike-runefunn-i-middelalderpark...

ksaj 5y ago
It doesn't really seem like a joke, but mentions the possibility that it is one that they don't understand. Basically it's a bone with an inscription on it that can either mean "goat's bone" or "weather bone" and the writer is suggesting in context they don't really know what it means, because it might not actually be a goat's bone, and why is it labeled as such in the first place?
- mzs 5y ago
  Thank you very much! Was a weather bone from an animal sacrifice for good weather?
  - ksaj 5y ago
    That's a good hunch, and pretty much why they don't really know (yet). There isn't any context to go by. It will be interesting to see once they're done the analysis if it was even goat. If not, your solution would possibly be next in line. If not a sacrifice, the bone could be used in a type of forecasting spell, like tossing it and reading which way it points, etc. I have a feeling instead of "joke" they mean "riddle," since that seems more like what they have on their hands.

by mzs 5y ago

ksaj 5y ago

It doesn't really seem like a joke, but mentions the possibility that it is one that they don't understand. Basically it's a bone with an inscription on it that can either mean "goat's bone" or "weather bone" and the writer is suggesting in context they don't really know what it means, because it might not actually be a goat's bone, and why is it labeled as such in the first place?

mzs 5y ago
Thank you very much! Was a weather bone from an animal sacrifice for good weather?
- ksaj 5y ago
  That's a good hunch, and pretty much why they don't really know (yet). There isn't any context to go by. It will be interesting to see once they're done the analysis if it was even goat. If not, your solution would possibly be next in line. If not a sacrifice, the bone could be used in a type of forecasting spell, like tossing it and reading which way it points, etc. I have a feeling instead of "joke" they mean "riddle," since that seems more like what they have on their hands.