Posted on 05/10/2019 2:23:38 PM PDT by ETL
Officials in the town of Plougastel in the region of Brittany, which is located in northwest France, are offering about $2,250 if someone can decipher the roughly 20 lines of writing on the rock, which was first discovered a few years back, per the BBC.
The inscription includes a series of capitalized letters, two dates — 1786 and 1787 — and carvings of a boat and a sacred heart, the BBC reported, which noted local experts have hypothesized it may be written in old Breton or Basque.
"This inscription is a mystery and it is for this that we are launching the appeal," Veronique Martin, who is leading the search, said, according to Agence France-Presse.
"These dates correspond more or less to the years that various artillery batteries that protected Brest and notably Corbeau Fort which is right next to it," she added.
The inscription reads, in part: "ROC AR B... DRE AR GRIO SE EVELOH AR VIRIONES BAOAVEL... R I OBBIIE: BRISBVILAR... FROIK...AL," per the publication.
According to the BBC, some of the letters are upside-down and some Scandinavian-style Ø letters are also visible.
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What does it say? What language is that?
Brother Maynard, you're our scholar.
It is Aramaic!
Of course. Joseph of Arimathea!
-Of course.
-What does it say?
It reads, "Here may be found...
"...the last words of Joseph of Arimathea:
"'He who is valiant and pure of spirit...
"'...may find the Holy Grail...
"'...in the Castle of Aaargh."'
What?
"The Castle of Aaargh."
What is that?
He must have died while carving it.
-Come on!
-That's what it says.
Look, if he was dying,
he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaargh."
-He'd just say it.
-That's what's carved in the rock.
-Perhaps he was dictating it.
-Shut up!
-Does it say anything else?
-No!
Just "Aaargh."
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Here's the clip on YouTube...
Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine.
“Drink your Ovaltine “.
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”.
11 seconds! That’s what you beat me by.
“Killroy slept here” Show me the money!!
Perhaps he was dictating . . .
ICURYY4ME
Russia
Russia
Russia
Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5EDOk7W-wA
The clip is about 5 mins. I created the Gif from the clip.
I have broken the code. It starts out: “There once was a Frenchman in Brittany...”
It says “Help! I’m being held hostage in my mother’s abdomen! Signed, Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France.
Then it ends with, “Never mind, I got out.”
There once was a girl from Brest
Who had an incredible
Everybody is wrong . . . aliens wrote it and Bigfoot edited it.
kilroy was here
It’s Wilma Flintstone’s grocery list.
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