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Mark on Hiccup's forehead
Topic Started: 25 Jun 2014, 23:44 (3409 Views)
MartianArchaeologist 25 Jun 2014, 23:44 Post #11
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Gronckle

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14 Jun 2014, 18:52
Does anybody with some anthropological background on Vikings know if the mark Gothic makes on Hiccup's forehead at the end is a symbol or something actually taken from Viking culture? Was it an abstract drawing of something I was supposed to recognize? I have been wondering about this...
I believe it is a bandrún. I have this belief because of these two web sites.

http://sign-iceland.com/?page_id=2

http://www.hugi.is/dulspeki/myndir/569690/bandrun/

A bandrún, according to the slightly-mangled Google Translate rendition, is a rune made of a couple of other runes.

This one could be a chief hat and a scepter, and also look like an eye, and a flying dragon, and Dork of Berk might have the correct interpretation after all :)

And bandrún is such a cool word!
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MartianArchaeologist 25 Jun 2014, 23:56 Post #12
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Gronckle

I just thought of something else, someone else who made a bandrún. It's in his name:

http://hanyuxiaofaxian.tumblr.com/post/ ... iens-hanzi

(No, dude, not hanzi. Bandrún.)


:: web surfs and wastes more time ::

Also Berkana is a cool word.

:: web surfs even more ::

PANTS OF THE DEAD? REALLY?

Um, does anybody remember what Hiccup's pants looked like at the end of the movie? Because, you know, animators....all Hannibal Lecter and all....
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Pakba 26 Jun 2014, 04:23 Post #13
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MartianArchaeologist
26 Jun 2014, 03:56

PANTS OF THE DEAD? REALLY?
Icelandic Pants of the Dead? Eww...
http://www.themarysue.com/necropants/
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seejanerun 27 Jun 2014, 23:58 Post #14
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

Well, that escalated quickly... :D

Thanks, guys! You rock. I devoured every one of dyannehs's posts on viking culture. What a great reference site, especially for those of us writing docs. Go read it if you haven't!
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Nightshade 03 Jul 2014, 12:57 Post #15
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anyone here who can grab a picture of how it looked, I may be able to come with some theory if I get to see it :)

EDIT: I looked a bit closer, got a picture of how it looks like, and it could be hälsinge-runes, if it is, then it would be a bandrune (bandrún, band = band, rún is old norse for rune).
But... it would make no sense if it was a bandrune, because then it would mean "mt", so I'm guessing that it's just a mark that dreamwork made up themselves, just like the runes they use in the movie.
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MartianArchaeologist 04 Jul 2014, 09:10 Post #16
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Gronckle

It's probably a bandrun made up of Berk characters that Dreamworks designed for that universe.

You're writing a paper? I wanna read!
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