Visiting Norway (love it) and in Odda we found this in the center of town. Any idea what it’s about? Netflix? And cryptic runes??

by thentryharder

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  2. I’m guessing it has to do with the Netflix series Ragnarok being filmed there. Too lazy to translate the runes

  3. Dumb viral marketing thing that’s obviously working.

  5. I think this is kind of gibberish. Lots of backwards or seemingly made up runes.

  6. “Jeg er bøg og tissen min er liten”

    Ancient norse blessing.

  7. Split second reaction I thought it was a headstone with Netflix on it, and then my brain went to ad sponsored graves, which will probably happen one day

  10. Translating it exactly would say:

    “RA[K/G]NARO[K/G] [K/G]OM[E?]R” (*note that in Younger Futhark, which is what the vikings used, the same rune was used for K and G)

    The ? (ᛂ) is a nonstandard form of hagall (H) in Younger Futhark, but it doesn’t seem to fit well that way. There are some runes here that are specifically Old Norwegian runes and don’t match the ones you would find in Denmark or Sweden, so they at least got that right. ᛂ can also be an “E” in the Medieval period, which would be way outside the show’s timeframe, but it does make more sense if you read it as an E.

    “TR[E?]TIFYRST[E?] IANUAR TYU[E?]TYU[E?]”

    It seems like what they were going for is “Ragnarok is coming, 31 January 2020” using Old Norwegian (transitional state between Old Norse and modern Norwegian dialects). But it has some very strange choices.

  12. ”Birds like Netflix, a lot.”

    Everything else is kinda fuzzy and mixed up.

  13. Its from a tv series (ragnarök) and Netflix put it there sometime between season 1 and 2.

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