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Anonymous
May 22, 2014

My First Translation

Hello all, I am very new to this site and have scribed (I guess) the Dovahzul runes into a notebook to aid me in deciphering my first word wall in the game. I randomly chose Shearpoint as my first wall to decipher and ran into some problems when directly translating the runes into the alphabet. I have the first five words/possible runnings of random letters and used the translator to find the english meanings but could only find clear translations for two of them. Gut - Far & Wahlaan - Built But there are three others that are just random jibberish... maybe I read the symbols wrong (sorry no screenies, as I play on console :( ) MO(or UR)DSF(or D/R) FSN AETHSEGURL so I was wondering if anyone could assist me in decoding the wall and help me read the dovahaic runes more accurately

Category: Translation


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hiith
May 22, 2014

Hi. When I first learned the runes, I also figured that it would be good practice to try to decipher the word walls, but, as I'm sure you know, it's not nearly as easy as it may seem, simply because of the difference in the fonts. To help you, I offer what I can read from an image that I found online:

(indistinct word) fin gut (?m?v?w?)ahlaan qethsegol

zeymahii vahrukt (indistinct)

fin mey wen zul los sahlo (?ahrk?)

ni sahrot thu'um do(ro?) ok brod

 

My reading isn't perfect, and the image that I used was troublesome, but you should get the gist. Hope I was of help, and try to practice more with rune-reading. It gets easier, I promise. The problem is mostly because of how close together some runes are, so you mix them up very easily (I did several times while reading it). Try to go through as many similar runes as you can, if you are unsure about a certain one.


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paarthurnax
Administrator
May 22, 2014

Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot on hand but here's the full transcription:

MODIR FIN GUT WahLaaN QETHSEGOL
ZeyMahii VahRUKT OSKAR
FIN Mey WEN ZUL LOS SahLO ahRK
NI SahROT THuuM DO OK BROD

This translates to:

Modir the Far built this stone
In his brother's memory, Oskar
the Fool whose voice was weak and
not the mighty Thu'um of his clan.

Take a closer look at the runes again. Here are some common ones to mixup:

  • O for UR. O has two short hooks while UR's are longer.
  • I for S. I also has two short hooks that are raised to the top of the rune. S has longer hooks. Its left hook is towards the bottom while its right hook is towards the top.
  • D for R. D has a dot and is placed higher up. R has a middle hook and in the in-game font, its placed on the bottom.
  • Q for A. Q has a slightly longer hook that is completely to the left of the long slash.

Hope this helps!


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Reggard
May 23, 2014
Thanks for the advice and help! And yes some of the runes do look very similar. Sorry for not posting under this username... for some reason I was signed out before posting. And keeping track of which rune your on is pretty easy if you remember that all the runes are only made up of three marks. Thanks for answering pretty quickly!

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Jacoboco
May 23, 2014

I have noticed that the two scratches ( is that what there called? ) on the top of the O are the same length unlike the UR witch the one on the right is longer than the left.


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Jacoboco
May 23, 2014

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