12oz ceramic mug with Handcarved runic love poem.
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Bryggen Fire
In 1955, a fire destroyed a large part of the town Bryggen, Norway. This massive excavation of a medieval village led archeologists to discover over 550 items with runic inscriptions dating back to 1150-1350 AD.  
 
Icelandic Rúnakefli ( Runesticks) were the ancient people’s method of sending simple messages to one another, comparable to telegrams or modern day text messages. This was an important archaeological discovery that became evidence that runes were used for far more than previously thought.
 
This was an illumination into the mundane everyday life in ancient times as archaeologists found inscriptions of trade receipt, name tags, Old Norse poems, Latin poems, Magic formulas and curses, religious inscriptions, drunken nonsense, secret messages and confessions of love. 
 
Among the runesticks discovered in Bryggen, the following inscriptions of love were found after being buried for centuries; just waiting to be discovered.

Among the items found, a stick with the runic inscription translating to:

ᛘᚢᚾ•ᚦᚢ•ᛘᛁᚴ•ᛘᛅᚾ•ᛁᚱ•ᚦᛁᚴ•ᛘᚢᚾ•ᚦᚢ•ᛘᛁᚱ

Mun þú mik,
man ek þik.
Unn þú mér,
ann ek þér.

Translating into English:

‘Remember me,
I remember you.
Love me,
I love you’.