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Runic inscription

DR 216

Period
Viking Age Jelling
Location
Tirsted

Inscription

§A᛫ᚬᛋᚱᛅᚦᚱ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚼᛁᛚᛏᚢ--ᛦ᛫ᚱᛅᛁᛋᚦᚢ᛫ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛅᚾᛋᛁ᛫ᛅᚠᛏ᛫ᚠᚱᚬᚦᛅ᛫ᚠᚱᚬᚾᛏᛁ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛁᛅᚾ᛫ᚼᛅᚾ᛫ᚢᛅᛋ᛫ᚦᚬ᛫ᚠᚬᛁᚾᚴ᛫ᚢᛅᛁᛦᛅ

§B᛫ᛁᛅᚾ᛫ᚼᛅᚾ᛫ᚢᛅᚱᚦ᛫ᛏᛅᚢᚦᚱ᛫ᚬ᛫ᛋᚢᚬᚦᛁᛅᚢᚦᚢ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚢᛅᛋ᛫ᚠᚢᚱᛋ᛫ᛁ᛫ᚠᚱᛁᚴᛁᛋ᛫ᛁᚬᚦᛁ᛫ᚦᚬ᛫ᛅᛚᛁᛦ᛫ᚢᛁᚴᛁᚴᛅᛦ

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

Old Norse

§A Ástráðr ok Hildungr/Hildvígr/Hildulfr reistu stein þenna ept Fraða/Freða, frænda sinn sinn, en hann var þá feikn(?) vera,

§B en hann varð dauðr á Svíþjóðu ok var fyrstr(?) í(?) Friggis(?) liði(?) þá allir víkingar.

English

§A Ástráðr and Hildungr/Hildvígr/Hildulfr raised this stone in memory of Fraði/Freði, their kinsman. And he was then the terror(?) of men.

§B And he died in Sweden and was thereafter the first(?) in(?) Friggir's(?) retinue(?) and then: all vikings.

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