All this from what is most likely just copied designs, with it being unlikely they even knew it was writing. The same happened with a coin minted by Mercian King Offa, which had his head on one side and the entire shahada on the reverse, mimicking (imperfectly) the writing on a Dinar coin from the Islamic caliphate.
I can see that the author soooo wanted this to be a near negation of the ridiculously well-known fact that Scandinavians were Danes, Norse, Swedes, Geats and others of similar ilk (whether or not they went on Viking missions). Sad.
All this from what is most likely just copied designs, with it being unlikely they even knew it was writing. The same happened with a coin minted by Mercian King Offa, which had his head on one side and the entire shahada on the reverse, mimicking (imperfectly) the writing on a Dinar coin from the Islamic caliphate.
I can see that the author soooo wanted this to be a near negation of the ridiculously well-known fact that Scandinavians were Danes, Norse, Swedes, Geats and others of similar ilk (whether or not they went on Viking missions). Sad.