Sit down, read the runes; stand up and fart
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 66). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: 1250–1300
Region: Bergen, Norway
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1250 CE to 1300 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
Runic stick N B584 gives its reader a two-stage instruction ending in flatulence. Preserved at Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, inventory 83/4311.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
A genuine everyday wooden runic stick preserves the read/fart instruction.
What remains uncertain
Cheap medium and vernacular informality meet only part of the definition. No independent medieval copies or adoption history of this particular instruction have been demonstrated.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria