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Runic inscription

DR 371

Period
Viking Age 1050-1150
Location
Åker 2

Inscription

ᚴᚢᚦᛘᚢᚾᛑ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚠᚱᚤᛒᛁᚬᚱᚾ᛫ᚱᛂᛋᛑᚢ᛫ᛋᛏᛂᛁᚾ᛫ᛂᛁᚠᛏᛦ᛫ᛁᛋᛒᛁᚬᚱᚾ᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᚴᚢᚦ᛫ᚼᛁᛅᛚᛒᛁ᛫ᛋᛁᚬᛚᚢ᛫ᚼᛅᚾᛋ

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Old Norse

Guðmundr ok Freybjôrn reistu stein eptir Ásbjôrn fôður sinn. Guð hjalpi sálu hans.

English

Guðmundr and Freybjôrn raised the stone in memory of Ásbjôrn their father. May God help his soul.

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
röd sandsten

Location

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

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Style group
RAK
Other identifiers
L 1476
Reference
Lerche Nielsen 1997c:36; DK nr.: Bh 28, http://runer.ku.dk/VisGenstand.aspx?Titel=%c3%85ker-sten_2

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