Sunday 12 May 2019

As It Is Sunday,

here is a brain teaser,


 all you have to do is decipher what the writing on the rock means, the rock is in the village of Plougastel, France, among the normal French letters some are reversed or upside-down, there are also some Scandinavian-style Ø letters, two years are visible - 1786 and 1787 - dating the inscription to a few years before the French Revolution, there is also the image of a ship with sails and rudder, and a sacred heart - a heart surmounted by a cross, but the writing has defied all attempts at interpretation by local academics to translate it, some think it may be in old Breton or Basque, and that the person who wrote it may only have been semi-literate, the letters may relate to the sounds of words as he or she heard them, in one section the letters read: 

"ROC AR B … DRE AR GRIO SE EVELOH AR VIRIONES BAOAVEL".

Another reads: "OBBIIE: BRISBVILAR ... FROIK … AL".


what does it all mean? above is local official Michel Paugam, who thinks the language may be ancient Breton, and here is the good news, the village is offering  a prize of €2,000 (£1,729 ; $ 2247.10) to anyone who can decipher the slab, photographs from AFP.


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