France rock riddle contest gives meaning to mysterious inscription

A challenge to decode a 230-year-old message on a stone on the bank of Brittany has discovered that a terrible passing was at the core of the engraving.

The town of Plougastel propelled a challenge to decode the secretive message after neighbourhood specialists couldn't comprehend it.

Two victors split the €2,000 (£1,679) prize cash on Monday.

City hall leader Dominique Cap said their interpretations had contrasted yet the subsequent stories were "fundamentally the same as".

The two victors concurred that the engraving was made in recognition of a man who kicked the bucket.

Noël René Toudic, an English educator and Celtic language master, said he took a shot at the premise that the author was a semi-proficient man talking eighteenth Century Breton.

The critical piece of his interpretation peruses: "Serge passed on when with no expertise at paddling, his pontoon was tipped over by the breeze."

The other winning section was by a student of history Roger Faligot and craftsman Alain Robert.

They additionally state the content is written in Breton, yet trust a portion of the words are Welsh.

Their interpretation peruses: "He was the manifestation of mental fortitude and joie de vivre. Someplace on the island, he was struck, and he is dead."

Found a couple of years back, the 20-line engraving is composed on a meter-high section in a bay in Brittany, just available at low tide.

Close by ordinary French letters, some are switched or topsy turvy, and there are additionally some Scandinavian-style Ø letters.

The years 1786 and 1787 are visible, dating the engraving to a couple of years before the French Revolution. There is additionally the picture of a boat and a heart surmounted by a cross.

The engraving was found a couple of years back however, neighbourhood scholastics couldn't decipher it.

Neighbourhood authorities said 61 complete interpretations were submitted in the challenge. Most originated from France, however, sections were likewise sent from nations including the US and Thailand.

A board made up of historians decided the passages, finding that the two winning speculations were the most conceivable understandings.

Top said there was as yet far to go to "totally unravel the secret" however depicted the aftereffect of the challenge as a "major advance forward", as said by news agency.