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Runic inscription

GR 14

Period
Post-Viking Age
Location
Ikigaat/Herjolfsnes (Ø 111)

Inscription

ᛁᛋᚢᛋ᛫ᚴᚱᛁᛋᛏᚱ᛫ᚼᛁᛆᛚᛒᛁ᛫-ᚱᛁᛋᛏᚢᛋ᛫ᚾᛆᛏᚢᛋ᛫ᛁᛋᛏ᛫ᚾᚢᛒᛁᛋ

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

Old Norse

Jesus Kristr hjalpi. Christus natus est nobis.

English

May Jesus Christ help. Christ was born for us.

Object

Object type
kors
Material category
trä
Material
trä

Location

District
Østerbygd (Grönland)
Municipality
Kujalleq
Placement
Nationalmuseet, København (D10653)

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Reference
Olsen 1949a s. 55, RunLab. opubl.

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