Episode 80 – Coded and Cipher Runes
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"How did he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet?" Blazing Saddles (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/
Titanic (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Jurassic Park (1993) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
“But I have never seen a vision...” Interview with a Vampire: the vampire chronicles (1994) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/characters/nm0000104
“I like not these feelings” Paraphrased from “I like not this news, bring me better news” Blackadder series one, The Queen of Spain’s Beard http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/one_queen.shtml
Nursemaid in the giant castle – from the Journey to Utgard (we totally did a double episode on this, but if you’d like to read instead - http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/mythology/myths/text/thor_utgard.htm)
Whosoever shall draw the sock from this stone… paraphrased from Sir Thomas Mallory – King Arthur and His Knights
Bait and Switch (which Suzanne misheard as Beighton Switch) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bait-switch.asp
Sean Bean – Actor with a career in theatre, radio, TV and film: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000293/
All Saints ‘Never Ever’ (1998) – ‘the alphabet runs straight from A to Z’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Ever_(All_Saints_song)
“This is where the story really starts” The Goon Show, Dishonoured (series 5 episode 12) first broadcast December 1954 http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e12_dishonoured
Morecombe and Wise film: The Intelligence Men (1965) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059315/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
Battleships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)
‘Happy little trees’ from the painter Bob Ross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross
Bryggen in Bergen – the bearded faces and the fish scales. There’s a few other ways of coding listed on this site: https://www.arild-hauge.com/esecreter.htm
TTFN – brought into popularity in Britain in 1940 through the character Mrs Mopp from ‘It’s That Man Again’ https://www.abbreviations.com/TTFN
Steganography - https://securelist.com/steganography-in-contemporary-cyberattacks/79276/
The microdot in the Roger Moore Bond film – now we look it up, it’s a Sean Connery Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’ (1967) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062512/ Roger Moore’s eyebrows are still independent though.
Havamal verse 143/144 ‘Do you know…? - https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html#runes
The runes coded in short and long lines are sometimes known as Ice Runes. Rotbrunna Stone reads ‘Airikr Huik’ = ‘Erik + to cut/carve/scratch/chip in stone with a chisel’ so Erik carved (these runes). For a picture of the stone, head here, the coded runes are the bottom right of the ribbon. http://www.runesnruins.com/runes/u1165.html
Sigtuna inscription ‘kiss me’ https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/jotunvillur-code-cracked/
The handwritten manuscript: Ggallen Cod 270 4to
Valsta Stone – mixes twigs and lines to encode runes, you can see a drawing of the inscription here: https://stonecircles.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/deciphering-secretrunes/
The font in Kareby Church, is a ‘read runes right’ inscription, there’s another at Gol Church. Kareby reads ‘interpret you who can the name Orklaski.’ From Norwegian Runes and Runic inscriptions by Spurkland https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1QDKqY-NWvUC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=The+font+in+Kareby+Church&source=bl&ots=PrUEPYQGzc&sig=ACfU3U0T43aURoVSwyKVLqzPQvYsxxjB5Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJtNGjyefoAhVUilwKHQT4DIkQ6AEwAHoECA0QKQ#v=onepage&q=The%20font%20in%20Kareby%20Church&f=false
‘The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’ A pangram or holoalphabietic sentence https://people.howstuffworks.com/14-pangrams.htm
Caesar Cipher http://practicalcryptography.com/ciphers/caesar-cipher/
Added twiddly bits on the Torvika A and B inscriptions: (under T in this alphabetical list: https://www.arild-hauge.com/einscription.htm
Rotation Cipher, eg Rot13. A Caesar Cipher with a 13 place shift
Jotunvillur Code proposed by PhD student Jonas Nordby at the University of Oslo in 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/12/ancient-viking-code-deciphered-runologist-jotunvillur
(and the quote from the professor can be found at the bottom of this article: https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-forskningno-language/mysterious-code-in-viking-runes-is-cracked/1396525 )
Linear A and B, and the translation by Michael Ventris: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment-of-linear-b-60-years-on
Rosetta Stone - a stone inscription with the same decree written in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Ancient Greek https://blog.britishmuseum.org/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-rosetta-stone/
Hieroglyphics, and story of translation- Thomas Young’s initial work in 1814 looking at cartouches, built on by Champollion in 1822: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/how-hieroglyphics-were-originally-translated/
Enigma Machine – breaking the codes used in WWII (there’s a whole history here) https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/hist.htm
The Franks Casket: https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=92560&partId=1
“This is not Sparta” 300 film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)
Ogham https://www.omniglot.com/writing/ogham.htm
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