[Regia-NA] futhark numbers

[Folo Watkins]

When I was at the Danish National Museum a few years, I found the runestick 
calendar, postdating the Viking era and not really a futrhark but still 
interesting. Numbers were indicated by a hash mark system. As I understood 
it, the creator marked off days of a journey on "trees." Unfortunately, I'm 
uncertain of exactly what the marks meant, and I have no indication that it 
was used during earlier times, but it's the closest I've found. Few of 
these runesticks, being made ofwood, survived.

There apparently isn't a place to post photos here like on the Yahoo 
groups; but I'll be happy to send you my photo of the runestick if you want 
to take a gander at it. If anyone knows more about these runestick 
calendars, I'd love to know. I was in a hurry in the museum getting as many 
photographs as I could!

Folki