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Runic inscription

DR 298

Period
Viking Age efter-Jelling
Location
Dalby, Sjöstorp

Inscription

ᚦᚢᚱᚴᛁᛦ᛫ᚱᛅᚦᛁ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛅᚾ...᛫ᛅᛏ᛫ᛁᛏᛁᚾᚴᛁᛚ᛫ᚠᛅᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᚴᚢᚦᚾ᛫ᛒᚢᛏᛅ᛫ᛅᛋ᛫ᛚᛁᚴᛁ/ᛚᛁᚴ᛫ᛁ/᛫ᚼᚢᚴ--

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

Old Norse

Þorgeirr reisti stein þenna at Steinkel, fôður sinn, góðan bónda, er lengi/liggr í/ .../haugi.

English

Þorgeirr raised this stone in memory of Steinkell, his father, a good husbandman, who long / lies in ... / mound.

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
granit

Location

Parish
Dalby sn
District
Torna hd, Skåne
Municipality
Lund
Placement
Lunds kulturhistoriska museum (35.397)

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Style group
RAK
Reference
Salberger 1961:65ff (ANF), Moltke 1985:318; DK nr.: Sk 74, http://runer.ku.dk/VisGenstand.aspx?Titel=Dalby-sten

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