Stonehenge
Nov.03, 2009 in
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There is nothing more interesting and fascinating than visiting Stonehenge…inside the beautiful world of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Wait…what? What’s with the tree? There are no trees near Stonehenge. I have no idea what is up with the colors here. Funky sunset? Gay pride? And don’t get me started on the tree. I bet that greeting card on the table is a sympathy card from his mom. Does anyone have any idea what that says at the bottom? I will say one thing…when you get an idea for a really suck tattoo…go all out and get that bad boy full back.
Thanks M. Leong for submitting this stellar back tat fail.
(9.86 out of 10)
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I think the letters are runes. the ooooooold celtics in europe wrote like this. dead language. only historyprofs and nerds can read it.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Actually it was the Norse who used runes Stuntman, completely different bunch to the Celts (who may or may not have used a script called Ogham at some point). Different parts of Europe and different ends of the first Millenium. Buggered if I know what it says however.
November 7th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
This is the Futhorc, the Anglo-Saxon runes, but the message is modern English, and transliterated by someone with no feel for how the runes are used as a living script.
I can’t clearly read the first half of the runes in the first word. The rest is “—ing is the path I chose”, twice using tyr-hail where the thorn would be appropriate, and once using is-nyd-ing where only ing was needed. And the sound of “I” is more aesc than is, but I’m nitpicking now.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Do you think he will be able to have the tattoo removed when Stonehenge is destroyed next year? Otherwise no-one will have any idea what it is meant to be.
July 5th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
the tree is a tree of life a very important piece for most people of pagan or norse decent like myself. runeguy is completely correct on the runes
April 18th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Most definitely not a fail tattoo, save the poor runic. History time.
The Norse settled, obviously, first in the Norway/Iceland region. Offshoots moved across Europe and, especially, into the area known modernly as Ireland and Scotland. The early Celts were these dislodged Norse, who later moved away from Runic, and who also, obviously, made Stonehenge. Also, Norse knotwork would become what is known today as Celtic knotwork. A lot of people that have ‘Celtic’ knots and symbols in their tats actually, ironically, have symbols and knots that were originally Norse.
The tree is the tree of life, or the world tree. I’m not going to sit and lecture on that, though… if you’re curious about an ancient and barely still existant religion, look it up yourself. I also cannot make out the first word’s intent with the runic.