The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, archaeology, mythology, religion and history around the globe. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exist countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and explained. When it comes to all the erotic inscriptions found, there is little doubt that there are young men who have been the authors, like the inscription on this wooden stick:Īt Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. (Image: Svein Skare, University Museum of Bergen). The wooden stick is about 11 centimeters (4.3 inches) long. Romantic runic inscription and control notches: “Please love me” on one side and notches on the other, probably showing the number of sacks or barrels that were unloaded or loaded on merchant ships. However, several wooden sticks contain short and naughty messages of different types, but there are also found romantic inscriptions like: Ást min, kyss mik (Old Norse, my darling, kiss me ). Many of the inscriptions found in Bergen were used as “name tags” following the formula Eysteinn á mik, (Old Norse, Eysteinn owns me ) and some inscriptions have longer messages such as orders. The Symbolic Key to a Viking Woman’s Independence.Tracing the Paths of the Vikings Through Their Graffiti.Futhark: Mysterious Ancient Runic Alphabet of Northern Europe.The findings in Bergen show that many had knowledge of the Old Norse alphabet Futhark, and the runes became the ordinary people’s tool for expressing themselves in writing. The rest of the population was kept on the outside as illiterates.īut perhaps they were not really illiterates in the broader sense of the word.
The problem was that reading and writing were reserved for the upper class and clergy, and used as a political tool. With Christianity the Latin alphabet also came. Previously it was believed that the use of runes had died out at the end of the Viking Age and the introduction of Christianity, i.e. The findings also show that runes were used as late as the 14th century, and maybe even longer. The Bryggen finds demonstrate the everyday use that runes had in the Bergen area, and probably also in other parts of Scandinavia at the time. The Bryggen finding has been called one of the most important runic discoveries in history because it shows that runes were used for more than inscriptions of names and formal phrases. The about 700 runic inscriptions discovered are mostly carved into flat wood sticks, mostly of pine, but there have also been found inscriptions on bone. This copper etching from 1580 by Hieronymus Scholeus is the first known drawing of Bergen.
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Bryggen is a series of Hanseatic commercial buildings lining the eastern side of the Vågen harbor – an area where there was hectic activity with unloading and loading of merchant ships. Several of the inscriptions have a short and erotic message carved into a flat stick of wood, showing that young men have not changed since the Middle Ages.įrom about 1360, German merchants established themselves in Bergen in a permanent colony attached to the Hanseatic office.
There have so far been found about 700 runic inscriptions dating back to the 14th century in the Bryggen area in Bergen, Western Norway. A runic inscription found in Bergen is quite long and the author must have had a lot of “erotic energy” when he carved these runes into the 33 centimeter-long (13 inches) wooden stick: “I love that man’s wife so high that fire feels cold! And I am that woman’s lover”.
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