r/Polish • u/MixAppropriate7104 • 13d ago

Translation Is this ring engraving in polish?

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This is my ukrainian father’s ring, he has no memory of where he bought it. Seems to say “Blog Boze Bronislawa”, or maybe “Bloy Boze Bronislawa”?

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u/Chaus_Vulpes 13d ago

Blog ( in this instance) is a shortened form of Błogosław Boże Bronisława , which means "God bless Bronisław"

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u/MixAppropriate7104 13d ago

Thank you so much!

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u/prion_guy 13d ago

How can you tell that it's "Błog" and not "Blog"? How is lowercase L written in Polish?

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u/Forward-Walrus 13d ago

I guess out of context, the engraved letter is "l" not "ł"

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u/szypsone 11d ago

Maybe it's an orthographical mistake from the olden times, when Ł was pronounced as a dark L, as it is in East Slavic languages. It was easier to mistake it with a regular L. The handwriting style suggests the ring is around 100 years old.

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u/MixAppropriate7104 10d ago

This looks to me like any former soviet union adult’s handwriting to me… why do you think over 100 yrs old?

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u/szypsone 7d ago

XD "Soviet Union" You were trying to troll, be sarcastic, or you are just that ignorant?

Answering your question: in the olden times people were learning calligraphy at school and had a distinct writing style. This one looks similar to my late gramps' writing. Calligraphy was withdrawn from schools after ww2, so we can differentiate between writing of 1st and 2nd half of 20th century.

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u/MixAppropriate7104 6d ago

My parent’s handwriting looks just like this.

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u/eVenent 12d ago

Blog advertisement "Boże, Bronisława!"

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u/timk__ 12d ago

Yes.

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u/Raditz_lol 10d ago

It’s Sauron’s ring.

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u/wnygrl585 11d ago

The ques was is it writing in Polish. Yes! And your arguing about what is written?