A competition to decipher a 230-year-old message on a rock on the coast of Brittany has found that a tragic death was at the heart of the inscription, reports the BBC.
The village of Plougastel launched a competition to decipher the mysterious message after local experts were unable to make sense of it.
Two winners split the €2,000 (£1,679) prize money on Monday.
Mayor Dominique Cap said their translations had differed but the resulting stories were "very similar".
Both winners agreed that the inscription was made in remembrance of a man who died.
Noël René Toudic, an English teacher and Celtic language expert, said he worked on the basis that the writer was a semi-literate man speaking 18th-Century Breton.
The key part of his translation reads: "Serge died when with no skill at rowing, his boat was tipped over by the wind."
The other winning entry was by historian Roger Faligot and artist Alain Robet.
They also say the text is written in Breton, but believe some of the words are Welsh.