"It is an absolutely unique find of national importance," says Jakob Bonde, an archaeologist with Museum Odense. "The runes on the knife are 800 years older than the runes on the Jelling Stones... a unique experience to stand with such an old... written language. It is one of the most amazing things an archaeologist can experience because it is an incredibly rare find."
"It is incredibly rare that we find runes that are as old as on this knife, and it is a unique opportunity to learn more about Denmark's earliest written language and thus also about the language that was actually spoken in the Iron Age... the scribes constituted a small intellectual elite, and the first traces of these people in Denmark are found."
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