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Mysterious Script Investigated in Iceland  
A document written on vellum in an unknown script was discovered in a house in Iceland. The only image I could find showing the text at all is unfortunately a very grainy detail from the online edition of Fréttablaðið:
Mystery Text
It will be interesting to see if we ever find out more about this. Hopefully the Árni Magnússon Institute will put the entire document online in some fashion so others can take a crack at it. Update.
» Posted: Thursday, November 1, 2007