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Runic inscription

DR IK241,1

Period
Pre-Viking Age 400-650
Location
Eskatorp

Inscription

§P᛫ᚠ-ᚺᛁᛞᚢ᛫ᚢᚢᛁᛚᚫᛚᛞ᛫ᚢᚢᛁᚷᚫᛘ᛫ᛖᛖᚱᛁᛚᚫᛘ

§Q᛫ᚠ-ᚺᛁᛞᚢ᛫ᚺᚢᛁᛚᚫᛚᛞᚢ᛫ᚢᛁᚷᚫᛘ᛫ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚫᛘ

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

Old Norse

§P Fahido wilald Wigaz, erilaz.

§Q Fahiðu hwil-alda. wigaz ek erilaz.

English

§P I Wigaz, the eril, painted the artifact.

§Q Coloured red (with sacrificial blood) (are/may be) the resting-people (= the dead)! The sanctifier (am) I, the eril.

Object

Object type
brakteat (F-typ)
Material category
metall
Material
guld

Location

Parish
Fjärås sn
District
Fjäre hd, Halland
Municipality
Kungsbacka
Placement
SHM (3670)

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Other identifiers
DR BR74
Reference
DR BR74; KJ 128; §Q: Grønvik 1996:220-230; http://runer.ku.dk/VisGenstand.aspx?Titel=Eskatorp-brakteat; http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00042599_00048.html; <http://www.runenprojekt.uni-kiel.de/abfragen/standard/deutung2_eng.asp?findno=129&ort=Eskatorp&objekt=brakteat (F-typ)>
Notes
Tidigare signum: DR BR74. Slagen med samma stämpel som DR IK241,2.

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