I love the Orkney Museum. Every time I go there I see something else that I’d bypassed on all previous visits. Here’s a stone with what look to be Viking runes carved onto its flat face.
![Reading the runes - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SAM_3109-3.jpg)
Unfortunately we can’t read the runes because they’re too broken; how tantalising.
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