Runic inscription

G 255

Period: Post-Viking Age b 1400-t
Location: Bro kyrka

Inscription

ᛒᛁᚦᛁᚾ᛫ᚠᚢᚱᛁ᛫ᚮᛚᛆᚠᛋ᛫ᛋᛁᛆᛚ᛫ᛁᚢᚼᛆᛋ᛫ᛆᚱᚠᛁ᛫ᛂ᛫ᛂᛏᛚᛁᚵᛁ᛫ᛋᚢᛘ᛫ᚼᛁᚱ᛫ᛚᛂᚵᚱ᛫ᚼᛆᚾᛋ᛫ᛆᚾᚴᛁᛆ᛫ᛒᚮᛏᛁᛆᚢᚦ᛫ᛒᚢᛏᚴᛆᚱ...ᛋ᛫ᛒᚮᚱᚾ-᛫ᛂ᛫ᚮᛁᛏ-ᚼᛁᚢᛘ᛫ᛚ-ᛏᚱ᛫ᛋᛏᛆᛁᚾᛁᚾ᛫ᚼᚴᛆ᛫ᚦᛁᚾᛆ

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

Old Norse

Biðið fyrir Ólafs sál, Jóhans arfi í Ýtlingi/Ytlings, sem hér liggr. Hans ekkja Bótþjóð, Bótgeirs(?) borna í Úteyjum/Utoje, lætr steininn hôggva þenna.

English

Pray for Ólafr's soul, Jóhan's heir in Ýtlingi/Ytlings, who lies here. His widow Bótþjóð, Bótgeirr's daughter in Úteyjum/Utoje, has this stone cut.

Object

Object type: gravhäll
Material category: sten

Location

Parish: Bro sn
District: Bro ting
Municipality: Gotland
Placement: Fastklamrad på utsidan av norra kyrkväggen.

Sources

Other identifiers: L 1721
Reference: S 46; Snædal 2002:172f

Images

**Bro kyrka** —Sven B. F. Jansson; Sven B. F. Jansson / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Swedish National Heritage Board as part of the cooperation project Connected Open Heritage with Wikimedia Sverige . This file was made available by Riksantikvarieämbetet as part of the Connected Open Heritage project. The project is led by Wikimedia Sverige in cooperation with UNESCO, Wikimedia Italia and Cultural Heritage without Borders and is financed by a project grant from the Culture Foundation of the Swedish Postcode Lottery .
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Data from the Scandinavian Runic-text Database:nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm