However ‘Ring and Raven’ believes the inscription may be badly spelt or might not mean anything at all.
‘Saxon swords in particular often had inscriptions on them that didn't actually say anything because the people buying them (or making them) were illiterate.
‘People wanted swords with their names, or other cool inscriptions on them, and they could recognise the symbols but they couldn't actually read.
'So the blacksmiths just put any old letters on and called it a day,' they write, likening the practice to people accidentally getting meaningless Chinese symbol tattoos.
