Nothing fancy this week for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Randy Seaver found an online tool to instantly transcribe words into Viking runes, courtesy of PBS (specifically of WGBH in Boston, the station that gives us Antiques Roadshow):
1) My friend and CVGS colleague Karen Y. found this fun Web site - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/write-your-name-in-runes.html. Click on the "Launch Interactive" button, enter your name or some phrase of your choice, and see how it looks in runes.
2) I thought it would be ideal for a fun and fast SNGF project. You can impress your friends and grandchildren with it, and maybe it will be a chart-storm on Facebook.
3) Share
your runic names or phrases with us in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this post, in a Facebook post or a Google+ post. Please provide a link to your response if you can.
If you want to put a name or phrase into runes, this is the fastest tool I've seen. So here's my name:
And because it's so easy, I did a mystery transcription also:
This actually relates to the runes, at least a little.
Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
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OK...got the first word of the mystery transcription. Have no idea what you mean by the 2nd word. I even Googled it...nothing.
ReplyDeleteOk, I don't see any emoticon, so I guess you're serious? What did you get for the first word?
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