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Runic inscription

DR 143

Period
Viking Age Jelling
Location
Gunderup 1

Inscription

§A᛫ᛏᚢᚴᛁ᛫ᚱᛅᛁᛋᚦᛁ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾᛁ᛫ᚦᚬᛁᛋᛁ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚴᛅᚱᚦᛁ᛫ᚴᚢᛒᛚ᛫ᚦᛅᚢᛋᛁ᛫ᛅᚠᛏ᛫ᛅᛒᛅ᛫ᛘᛅᚴ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛅᛁᚴᚾ᛫ᚴᚢᚦᛅᚾ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ

§B᛫ᛏᚢᚠᚢ᛫ᛘᚢᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾᚬ᛫ᚦᛅᚢ᛫ᛚᛁᚴᛅ᛫ᛒᛅᚦᛁ᛫ᛁ᛫ᚦᛅᚢᛘ᛫ᚼᛅᚢᚴᛁ᛫ᛅᛒᛁ᛫ᚢᚾᛁ᛫ᛏᚢᚴᛅ᛫ᚠᛁᛅᛦ᛫ᛋᛁᚾᛋ᛫ᛅᚠᛏ᛫ᛋᛁᚴ

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

Old Norse

§A Tóki reisti steina þessa ok gerði kuml þessi ept Apa/Ebba, mág sinn, þegn góðan, ok

§B Tófu, móður sína. Þau liggja bæði í þeim haugi. Api/Ebbi unni Tóka fjár síns ept sik.

English

§A Tóki raised these stones and made these monuments in memory of Api/Ebbi, his kinsman-by-marriage, a good þegn, and

§B Tófa, his mother. Both of them lie in this mound. Api/Ebbi granted Tóki his wealth after himself.

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