Posted on 10/14/2024 2:01:42 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
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The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogr)am).
Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!
I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.
One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.
Enjoy today’s Cryptogram
Daring do.
-PJ
Go west, young man.
Nah, we gotta have revisionist Leftist “history”
Sez the fools and idiots
C GLWVU DSEPTD BCE LA S OWHOJCA, SAU PSFT CE SVV EL HXBTVZ, EPSA YT MDLGUTU LA S FTVFTE MWBPCLA. - PTADX USFCU EPLDTSWSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” - ZJKUXQBWJAK ZBEVGLVX
Unless you publish, you get no credit for discovery. The Sagas don’t count.
According to the Grænlendinga saga (“Saga of the Greenlanders”), Bjarni Herjólfsson became the first European to sight mainland North America when his Greenland-bound ship was blown westward off course about 985.
1.) There was little to blunder in North America.
2.) Vikings did not lay siege, they were raiders. They made a quick grab in isolated settlements.
3.) There were some Viking colonies, notably Normandy and York, and the Danelaw, today’s Northumberland.
4.) There were two distinct kind of Vikings, West-Vikings (Norway-Denmark) who were raiders and East-Vikings (Swedes) who were traders and settlers. The East-Viking settled in Moscow (Russia, from the Viking word “to row”) and are the ancestors of the Czars.
5.) The East Vikings provided body guards to the Ottoman emperors and traded with Araby via the Volga.
Thanks.
“Viking” was not a noun, but a verb.
The Norsemen would “go Viking” when they went on raids.
Just a tidbit that means nothing….
No, viking is most definitely a noun in both English and Norse. It is derived from the Norse word vik, meaning bay or fjord, and in the most general sense meant a sailor.
To go viking meant to go to sea. In the west, that meant raiding the British Isles, or the North European coast. In the east it meant trading either with the Slavs, Byzantines, Ottomans or Arabs.
There is evidence he may have been Jewish.
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