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Runic inscription

G 121

Period
Pre-Viking Age ca 500
Location
Gurfiles

Inscription

ᛚᚫᚦᚢ

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

Old Norse

laþu

English

invitation

Object

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

Location

Parish
Ala sn
District
Kräklinge ting
Municipality
Gotland
Placement
SHM (3372)

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Reference
Snædal 2002:33f; KJ 116; IK 264, http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00042599_00082.html; <http://www.runenprojekt.uni-kiel.de/abfragen/standard/deutung2_eng.asp?findno=115&ort=Gurfiles&&objekt=brakteat (C-typ)>

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