Scott Wolter
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
something called a pentatic number.
And Matt, I can teach you how to use pentatic numbers in 10 seconds.
Are you ready?
Yes.
Make a vertical line.
Stroke here is 1, 2, 3, 4.
Half loop is 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Full loop is 10.
Put them in Arabic placement.
You can make any number you want.
Okay.
That's about 10 seconds.
Yeah, that's about right.
So we have the number eight that starts off in the inscription, a vertical line, half loop is five, six, seven, eight.
Eight Gotlanders, people from Gotland, and 22 Northmen on this acquisition business slash taking up land from Vinland far to the west.
Now, that is in the first three lines of the inscription.
And it's telling us who it is, where they came from, and what the purpose of this inscription is.
Acquisition business slash taking up land.
It's a land claim.
Somebody is claiming land.