Runic inscription

DR 370

Period: Viking Age 1050-1150
Location: Åker 1

Inscription

ᚦᚢᚱᚠᛅᛋᛏᚱ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚦᚢᚱᛁᛚᛋ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛒᚢᚠᛁ᛫ᚦᛁᛦ᛫ᛋᛅᛏᚢ᛫ᚴᚢᛘᛚ᛫ᚦᚢᛋᛁ᛫ᛅᚠᛏᛁᛦ᛫-...᛫...ᚠ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛒᚢᚱᚢᚦᛦ᛫ᚴᚢᚦ᛫ᚼᛅᛒᛁ᛫ᚬᛏᛅ᛫ᚦᛁᛋᛅ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚴᚢᛋ᛫ᛘᚢᚦᛦ᛫ᛋᛅᚱᛏᚱ᛫ᚱᛁᛋᛏ᛫ᚱᛂᛏ

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

Old Norse

Þorfastr ok Þorgísl ok Bófi þeir settu kuml þessi eptir ... ... ok Bróðir/Bróður. Guð hjalpi anda þessum ok Guðs móðir. Svartr reist rétt.

English

Þorfastr and Þorgísl and Bófi, they placed these monuments in memory of ... ... and (so did) Bróðir/ (in memory of) Bróðir. May God and God's mother help his/their spirit(s). Svartr carved rightly.

Object

Object type: runsten
Material category: sten
Material: röd sandsten

Location

Parish: Åker sn
District: Sønder hd, Bornholm
Municipality: Bornholm
Placement: I Åkirkebys kyrkas vapenhus.

Sources

Reading basis: The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Style group: RAK
Other identifiers: L 1478
Reference: Salberger 1967, Lerche Nielsen 1997c:40; DK nr.: Bh 27, http://runer.ku.dk/VisGenstand.aspx?Titel=%c3%85ker-sten_1

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