Closing Bell: Elvish Tagging in Greenpoint?

New York Shitty needs a translator for some recent tagging that was discovered on storefronts in Greenpoint. Sent in by a NYS reader, "a person is tagging in what looks like elvish." The reader found the first set on Leonard and Norman and the second on Eckford and Nassau. Anyone know what the tagging says?
Photo by Kevin Gillespie.

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It's german. It says: The secret of the ruins. Refers both to the oldest alphabet of the Germanic tribes and to a book by the Austrian mystic Guido von List. According to Wiki, "List's book is seminal to later currents of Germanic mysticism and Nazi occultism. The Armanen runes were employed for magical purposes in by authors such as Friedrich Bernhard Marby and Siegfried Adolf Kummer, and after World War II in a reformed "pansophical" system by Karl Spiesberger."

Posted by: perk23 at May 4, 2009 4:26 PM

perk23 is correct, except that it should be "runes" not "ruins."

Posted by: SnarkSlope at May 4, 2009 4:29 PM

lol @ whiteboy graffitti

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at May 4, 2009 4:32 PM

"Der Runen" in the genative plural?

Posted by: BrooklynButler at May 4, 2009 4:44 PM

"Der Runen" in the genetive plural?

Posted by: BrooklynButler at May 4, 2009 4:44 PM

"Der Runen" in the genitive plural?

Posted by: BrooklynButler at May 4, 2009 4:44 PM

no! it's elvish for "I'm messing up someone else's property cause i'm a first class a**hole and criminal"!

sure that the 2 owners of those business won't mind spending time and money cleaning it off though. cause it's cool.

Posted by: wine lover at May 4, 2009 4:50 PM

Yes, der Runen in genitive plural.

Posted by: sixyearsandcounting at May 4, 2009 5:23 PM

If they were Runes from Middle Earth, they would be Dwarf Runes in Dwarfish.

Posted by: Low_Talker338 at May 4, 2009 5:32 PM

I read this as "Elvis" on first take. Now that would'be been something...

Posted by: grand army at May 4, 2009 5:53 PM

It says, "Douchebag hipsters have way to much free time and get a f00kin job."

or something to that effect.

Posted by: Xander Crews at May 4, 2009 6:43 PM

I don't think there's anything particularly funny about racist graffiti. It's great for them that anything in Greenpoint or the burg is immediately dismissed as being some sort of hipster douchebaggery.

Posted by: spnder at May 4, 2009 7:30 PM

Greenpoint humans want to know

Posted by: antte at May 4, 2009 9:28 PM

it says "i am a miscreant scumbag with nothing better to do so i decided to deface someone's private property."

Posted by: 11214 at May 5, 2009 6:21 AM

Spnder, you might win the prize. I've seen every possible topic on Brownstoner be somehow reduced to either 'racist' or 'classist' by torch-bearing, pitchfork waving commenters. Your claim that "The Secret Of The Runes" is somehow 'racist graffiti' has me scratching my head. I just can't figure that one out, unless you're reading something into the Nazi reference above. In which case you're way off target.

It possible- and I'm not defending graffiti as an artform, nor do I even really consider it defensible- but it IS possible that you're guilty of an even more egregious douchebaggery.

Posted by: houseowax at May 5, 2009 6:24 AM

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