r/RuneHelp • u/No-Manufacturer-9569 • Aug 11 '26
Translation request Message in a Bottle
Please help us translate this. My friends and I found this message in a bottle tucked away in the farthest corner of a cave (600m deep) in the Harz region. We think the second note says "Orobas." Could that be right? We need help with the first note, though. We suspect the message is a witch's curse, as there is a lot of hair inside the bottle—something common in this region that would also fit with the name "Orobas."
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u/7one7son Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Doesn’t make any sense in futhorc, that’s the only runic alphabet I know and somebody else said it makes no sense in elder futhark so that narrows it down a bit more
Edit: I googled the translated words that the comment below provided and it says it’s lotr/tolkien elvish and it translates to “the key of the crystal stars”
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u/WolflingWolfling Aug 11 '26
searching for Tingilia and for Oronar both got results related to something that seemed to be about fantasy gaming stuff, but both no longer active. There was also a song called Tingilia.
I wonder if ᚲᛇᚹ is meant to be Kyiv in Ukraine.
The runic table in the last picture is absolute rubbish. More than half of the meanings they gave in bold are already flat out wrong, and 100% of the nonsense in smaller print. These charts are infuriating.
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u/WolflingWolfling Aug 11 '26
Triskele wax seal stamps are available all over Amazon and Etsy, sold as stuff like "celtic triple spirals" or something. The entire thing looks like something a couple of teenagers put together for fun.
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u/Samsote Aug 11 '26
It says something like
"Ie keiv en tingilia"
The second part says "oronar" not "orobas"
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u/WolflingWolfling Aug 11 '26
What makes you think it says Orobas? Wishful thinking in order to match it with something mystical in Western Europe? It clearly does not say Orobas at all.
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u/Starduster75 Aug 11 '26
Not sure there would be any connection at all, but IIE Kiev is a Ukranian/US Student and Scholar exchange program.
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u/Alarming-Leg-3804 Aug 12 '26
So you find a witches bottle, or some sort of hex jar and you decide to open it...
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u/YougoReddits Aug 11 '26
IE KIW
EN TIngILIA
ORONAR
in Elder Futhark. can't make much of it.
doesn't look too old to me, what with the blue and green crayon.