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Re:‘Sensational’ Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the W... by moloch-hai on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:32AM (#34501034)
Apparently, assuming it was "influenced by" only one "older writing system". But there is no basis for any such assumption. It appears to be purely a matter of their own convenience, wholly disconnected from anything in the script.
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Re:‘Sensational’ Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the W... by wolverine876 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:50PM (#34508163)
What is your statement based on? Your analysis of runic scripts?
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Re:‘Sensational’ Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the W... by moloch-hai on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:30PM (#34508864)
The origins of the runic script are not established. If they resembled something else strongly enough to say there was just the one, we would not be discussing this.
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Re:‘Sensational’ Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the W... by wolverine876 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:34PM (#34512703)
> If they resembled something else strongly enough to say there was just the one, we would not be discussing this.

That doesn't make sense to me. Maybe they did and you don't know about it.

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Re:‘Sensational’ Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the W... by moloch-hai on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:50PM (#34512836)
Maybe read up just a bit? It is the biggest open question.
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