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Runic inscription

G 306

Period
Post-Viking Age 1419
Location
Hangvars kyrka

Inscription

ᚵᛆᚾᚢᛁᚦᚱ᛫ᚮᚴ᛫ᛒᚮᛏᚢᛁᚦᚱ᛫ᚴᛆᛋᛚᛚᛆ᛫ᚮᚴ᛫ᚦᛆᛁᚱ᛫ᛚᛂᛏᚢ᛫ᚼᛆᚵᛆ᛫ᛆᚾ᛫ᛋᛏᛆᛁᚾ᛫ᚮᚴ᛫ᚤᚠᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᚠᛆᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛒᚢᛏᛆᛁᚱ᛫ᛆᛁᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚵᚢᚦ᛫ᛆᛚᛋᛋᚢᛆᛚᛏᚢᚼᚱ᛫ᚼᛆᚠᛁ᛫ᚦᛁᚾᛆ᛫ᛋᛁᛆᛚ᛫ᚮᚴ᛫ᚦᛆ᛫ᚢᛆᚱ᛫ᛚ᛫ᚮ...᛫ᛔᛁᚱᛁᛘᛋᛏᛂᚠᚱ᛫ᚮᚴ᛫ᚠᛁᚱ᛫ᛋᚢᚾᚢᛏᛆᚼᚱ᛫ᚮᚴ᛫ᛂᚾ᛫ᚼᛆ᛫ᛑᚮ

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Old Norse

Gagnviðr ok Bótviðr í Kassla/Kassle ok þeir létu hôggva einn stein ok yfir sinn fôður, Bótgeir heitinn. Guð allsvôldugr hafi þína sál. Ok þá var l ok(?) prímstafr ok fir sunnudagr ok en hann dó.

English

Gagnviðr and Bótviðr in Kassla/Kassle, and they had a stone cut over their father, he was called Bótgeirr. May all-powerful God have (= take) their souls. And then L and(?) (was) the prime-stave and Fir (= F-rune?) the Sunday(-stave) when he died.

Images

Hangvars kyrka

Hangvars kyrkanot provided; 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