Chapter 20 | Freedom
on March 31, 2022
at 12:00 am
Yes, they really do say something.
Thistil Mistil Kistil
by Sarah Schanze
Velkommen!
Thistil Mistil Kistil is a comic about vikings, Norse gods, and their adventures together (or against each other). Updates are on Thor’s Day.
HAIL MARI
FULL OF GRACE
THE LORD IS UUITH OOE
BLESSED ARE THOU
AMONG UUOMEN
Gods, I hate Ogham.
In any case, it looks like we’re going to Ireland.
I like the spiral hips on the wolfhounds.
That’s too bad cuz more is coming! 😀
THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR
NO GREAT DEEDS ARE COMMEMORATED HERE
This feels familiar but I don’t recognize it! But neat.
Via this! https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor
Ohhh! Thanks lol.
Aw c’mon, it’ll be fun. The Beith-luis-nin are always fun. They spell fun things that are fun. Pure fun. So much fun.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I’m sure no one will cry this chapter at all.
Well I am impressed by anyone who can read that!!
And delighted that you are back, Sarah.
The actual words are English, just written in a different script. It reads bottom to top, left to right. The hard part is just recognizing what the script is so you can Google it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
The big problem with Ogham is that the ancient Irish don’t seem to have realized that an important feature of a script is that the letters actually be visually distinct from one another. Most of reading it is just carefully counting little lines, because, y’know, an ᚓ and an ᚔ look an awful lot alike at a glance, and it may be tricky to tell the difference between ᚈᚆ and ᚉ…
It does have the interesting feature of grouping letters into similar sound families. Like for instance, all the characters where the line goes all the way across perpendicular to the center line are vowels, and vice versa.
Thank you! Hope everyone enjoys the chapter.
Love those wolves.
Thanks! They’re a common Hedda motif.