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The article focuses on runologist Lisbeth Imer of the National Museum of Denmark had an inkling of what its inscription and possibly because the disk sat in the cool Danish soil for more than 1,500 years. It mentions language used, known as Proto-Norse, is difficult to translate because so little of it has been and to compare it with sister languages and reconstruct back from the Viking language, Old Norse. It also mentions oldest written reference to the Norse god of war and of the dead.