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Runic inscription

Ög 81

Period
Viking Age s 900-t
Location
Högby gamla kyrka

Inscription

§A᛫ᚦᚢᚴᛁᚱ᛫ᚱᛂᛋᚦᛁ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛅᚾᛋᛁ᛫ᛂᚠᛏᛁᛦ᛫ᛅᛋᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛂᚾ᛫ᛘᚢᚦᚢᚱᛒᚱᚢᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛁᛅᛦ᛫ᛂᛅᛏᛅᚦᛁᛋ᛫ᛅᚢᛋᛏᚱ᛫ᛁ᛫ᚴᚱᛁᚴᚢᛘ

§B᛫ᚴᚢᚦᚱ᛫ᚴᛅᚱᛚ᛫ᚴᚢᛚᛁ᛫ᚴᛅᛏ᛫ᚠᛁᛘ᛫ᛋᚤᚾᛁ᛫ᚠᛂᛅᛚ᛫ᚬ᛫ᚠᚢᚱᛁ᛫ᚠᚱᚢᚴᚾ᛫ᛏᚱᛂᚴᛋ᛫ᛅᛋᛘᚢᛏᚱ᛫ᛅᛁᛏᛅᚦᛁᛋ᛫ᛅᛋᚢᚱ᛫ᛅᚢᛋᛏᚱ᛫ᛁ᛫ᚴᚱᛁᚴᚢᛘ᛫ᚢᛅᚱᚦ᛫ᚬ᛫ᚼᚢᛚᛘᛁ᛫ᚼᛅᛚᚠᛏᛅᚾ᛫ᛏᚱᛁᛒᛁᚾ᛫ᚴᛅᚱᛁ᛫ᚢᛅᚱᚦ᛫ᛅᛏ᛫ᚢᛏᛁ

§C᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛏᛅᚢᚦᚱ᛫ᛒᚢᛁ᛫ᚦᚢᚱᚴᛁᛚ᛫ᚱᛁᛋᛏ᛫ᚱᚢᚾᛅᛦ

This is a normalized form and may not represent the exact runic forms in the inscription.

Old Norse

§A Þorgerðr(?) reisti stein þenna eptir Ôzur,/Ôzur sinn/Seinn móðurbróður sinn, er endaðist austr í Grikkjum.

§B Góðr karl Gulli gat fimm sonu. Fell á Fœri frœkn drengr Ásmundr, endaðist Ôzurr austr í Grikkjum, varð á Holmi Halfdan drepinn, Kári varð at Oddi(?)

§C ok dauðr Búi. Þorkell reist rúnar.

English

§A Þorgerðr(?) raised this stone in memory of Ôzurr, her / Ôzurr Seinn, her mother's brother. He met his end in the east in Greece.

§B The good man Gulli got five sons. The brave valiant man Ásmundr fell at Fœri; Ôzurr met his end in the east in Greece; Halfdan was killed at Holmr (Bornholm?); Kári was (killed) at Oddr(?);

§C also dead (is) Búi. Þorkell carved the runes.

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Data from the Scandinavian Runic-text Database:nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm