Runic inscription

DR 42

Period: Viking Age Jelling
Location: Jelling 2

Inscription

§A᛫ᚼᛅᚱᛅᛚᛏᚱ᛫ᚴᚢᚾᚢᚴᛦ᛫ᛒᛅᚦ᛫ᚴᛅᚢᚱᚢᛅ᛫ᚴᚢᛒᛚ᛫ᚦᛅᚢᛋᛁ᛫ᛅᚠᛏ᛫ᚴᚢᚱᛘ᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛅᚠᛏ᛫ᚦᚬᚢᚱᚢᛁ᛫ᛘᚢᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾᛅ᛫ᛋᛅ᛫ᚼᛅᚱᛅᛚᛏᚱ᛫ᛁᛅᛋ᛫ᛋᚬᛦ᛫ᚢᛅᚾ᛫ᛏᛅᚾᛘᛅᚢᚱᚴ

§B᛫ᛅᛚᛅ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚾᚢᚱᚢᛁᛅᚴ

§C᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛏᛅᚾᛁ᛫ᚴᛅᚱᚦᛁ᛫ᚴᚱᛁᛋᛏᚾᚬ

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

Old Norse

§A Haraldr konungr bað gera kuml þessi ept Gorm, fôður sinn, ok ept Þyrvé, móður sína, sá Haraldr er sér vann Danmôrk

§B alla ok Norveg

§C ok dani gerði kristna.

English

§A King Haraldr ordered these monuments made in memory of Gormr, his father, and in memory of Þyrvé, his mother; that Haraldr who won for himself all of Denmark

§B and Norway

§C and made the Danes Christian.

Object

Object type: runsten
Material category: sten
Material: granit

Location

Parish: Jelling sn
District: Tørrild hd, Nørrejylland
Municipality: Vejle

Sources

Style group: Fp, Pr1?
Other identifiers: L 1538
Reference: DK nr.: SJy 11, http://runer.ku.dk/VisGenstand.aspx?Titel=Jelling-sten_2

Images

**Lille og Store Jelling Sten (Jelling 1-2)** —Søren Abildgaard; Nationalmuseet Frederiksholms Kanal 12 1220 København K Danmark
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**Jelling-sten 2c** —Roberto Fortuna; NATIONALMUSEET
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**Jelling-sten 2a** —Roberto Fortuna; NATIONALMUSEET
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**Jelling-sten 2b** —Roberto Fortuna; NATIONALMUSEET
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**Aftegninger af lille og stor runesten (forside).** —S. Abildgaard; Nationalmuseet, København
Source ·Public Domain

**Aftegninger af lille og stor runesten (bagside).** —S. Abildgaard; Nationalmuseet, København
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**Store runesten (forside)** —S. Abildgaard; Nationalmuseet, København
Source ·Public Domain

**Store runesten (bagside).** —S. Abildgaard; Nationalmuseet, København
Source ·Public Domain

**599. Notater om ældre læsning af Jelling runesten** —Søren Abildgaard; Nationalmuseet, Danmark
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**Plan over gravhøjene, runestenene, kirken, og kirkegården, 1820, Jelling Kirke** —-; Nationalmuseet, Danmark
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**Jelling-runesten 2** —Erik Moltke; Nationalmuseet, Danmark
Source ·CC BY-SA 4.0

**Jellingstenen.** —Niels Elswing; Danmarks Oldtid, Nationalmuseet
Source ·CC BY-SA 4.0

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