Date: 12/08/2015 22:28:10
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 760205
Subject: Can You Help Decode a message

Can You Help Decode The Unknown Language On This 750-Year-Old Sword?

In 1825, a three-foot-long sword was uncovered from a river on the eastern cost of England. “If struck with sufficient force, it could easily have sliced a man’s head in two,” writes the British Library’s Julian Harrison. Though its potential uses might be obvious, the gold inscription on its face is not.

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Date: 14/08/2015 22:43:11
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 761341
Subject: re: Can You Help Decode a message

CrazyNeutrino said:


Can You Help Decode The Unknown Language On This 750-Year-Old Sword?

In 1825, a three-foot-long sword was uncovered from a river on the eastern cost of England. “If struck with sufficient force, it could easily have sliced a man’s head in two,” writes the British Library’s Julian Harrison. Though its potential uses might be obvious, the gold inscription on its face is not.

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NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI

Possibly Welsh. Or similar to

BENEDOXOFTISSCSDRRISCDICECMTINIUSCSDNI
and
DIOXMTINIUSESDIOMTINIUSCSDICCCMTDICIIZISI

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Date: 14/08/2015 23:01:38
From: wookiemeister
ID: 761353
Subject: re: Can You Help Decode a message

maybe the inscription is an acronym

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Date: 14/08/2015 23:03:56
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 761354
Subject: re: Can You Help Decode a message

wookiemeister said:


maybe the inscription is an acronym

Apologies for off topic. Only realised recently that ALDI is an acronym.

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Date: 14/08/2015 23:20:27
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 761358
Subject: re: Can You Help Decode a message

a syllabic abbreviation.

Syllabic abbreviation
A syllabic abbreviation is an abbreviation formed from (usually) initial syllables of several words, such as Interpol = International + police. It is a variant of the acronym. Syllabic abbreviations are usually written using lower case, sometimes starting with a capital letter, and are always pronounced as words rather than letter by letter. Syllabic abbreviations should be distinguished from portmanteaus, which combine two words without necessarily taking whole syllables from each.

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