The Bryggen inscriptions are a find of some 600 runic inscriptions on wood (mostly pine) and bone found from 1955 and forth at Bryggen (and its surroundings) in Bergen, Norway. It has been called the most important runic find in the twentieth century. Before the find of these inscriptions, there was doubt whether the runes was ever used for anything else than inscriptions of names and solemn phrases. The Bryggen find showed the everyday use that runes had in this area, and presumably in other parts of Scandinavia as well. Since these findings, many more runic inscriptions of this type has been found in Norway.

The inscriptions have numbers for Bergen finds, mostly "B" followed by three figures.

Examples found at Bryggen or nearby

B149: kya: sæhir : atþu: kakhæim: þ(an)sak: (ab)akist(an): rþis

Gyða tells you to go home.

External links

• Database with the runes from Bryggen
• Report on computerizing the Bryggen runes