Dark Letters, Illuminated : Establishing a Catalogue and Initiatory Analysis for the Icelandic Post-Medieval Cryptographic Corpus

• Main Author: Hash, Jason Anthony, 1990-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Víkinga- og miðaldafræði; Dulmál; Rúnir; Varpa; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/28823

Seeking to shed light on the cryptographic tradition within Icelandic history, this thesis is centered around three goals. The first is to establish the presence of alternative alphabets (villuletur), henceforth referred to as ciphers, in Icelandic history from the period of the so-called Viking Age...