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Runic inscription

DR 12

Period
Pre-Viking Age 375/400-460/470 (Imer 2007)
Location
Gallehus

Inscription

ᛖᚲ᛫ᚺᛚᛖᚹᚫᚷᚫᛊᛏᛁᛘ᛫ᚺᛟᛚᛏᛁᛃᚫᛘ᛫ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚫ᛫ᛏᚫᚹᛁᛞᛟ

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

Old Norse

Ek Hlewagastiz Holtijaz horna tawido.

English

I Hlewagastiz Holtijaz (of Holt, Holti's son) made the horn.

Object

Object type
horn
Material category
metall
Material
guld

Location

Parish
Møgeltønder sn
District
Lø hd, Sønderjylland
Municipality
Tønder

Sources

Inscription status
Lost; it is not known to survive
Other identifiers
L 1892
Reference
KJ 43; DK nr.: SJy 60, http://runer.ku.dk/VisGenstand.aspx?Titel=Gallehus-horn_2; <http://www.runenprojekt.uni-kiel.de/abfragen/standard/deutung2_eng.asp?findno=28&ort=Gallehus&objekt=horn>
Notes
Gallehushornet

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