The Bryggen inscriptions are a find of some 600 runicinscriptions on wood (mostly pine) and bone found from 1955 and forth at Bryggen (and its surroundings) in Bergen, Norway. It has been called the most important runic find in the twentieth century. Before the find of these inscriptions, there was doubt whether the runes was ever used for anything else than inscriptions of names and solemn phrases. The Bryggen find showed the everyday use that runes had in this area, and presumably in other parts of Scandinavia as well. Since these findings, many more runic inscriptions of this type has been found in Norway.
The inscriptions have numbers for Bergen finds, mostly "B" followed by three figures.
Inscriptions are words or letters written, engraved, painted, or otherwise traced on a surface and can appear in contexts both small and monumental.
Coin texts and monumental carvings on buildings are both included by historians as types of inscriptions.
The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum is an example of an attempt by scholars to publish an organized collection of the known inscriptions from a particular language.
The Bryggeninscriptions are a find of some 670 runicinscriptions on wood (mostly pine) and bone found from 1955 and forth at Bryggen (and its surroundings) in Bergen, Norway.
Before the find of these inscriptions, there was doubt whether the runes were ever used for anything else than inscriptions of names and solemn phrases.
Another important aspect of the find was that many of the inscriptions were obviously at least as young as the 14th century.
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