Runic inscription

N IK1

Period: Pre-Viking Age
Location: Ågedal

Inscription

§P᛫ᚫᚺᛚ--ᛁ-ᚦᛁᛉᚫᛁᛖᛁᚢ-ᛞᛁᚢᚺᛚᛁᚫᚠᛚᚺᚫ-ᚫᚺᛞᛏᛁᚫᛁ--ᛁᛖᛚᛁᚠᛁᚫᚾᛁᛏ

§Q᛫ᚦᛁᛉ᛫ᚫᛁᛖ᛫ᛁᚱᛁᛟᛞ᛫ᛁ᛫ᚢᚺᛚᛁᚫᚠᛚ᛫ᚺᚫᚺᚫ᛫ᛚᛁᛞ᛫ᛏᛁᚫᛞᛖ᛫ᛖᛚᛁ᛫ᚫᛁᚷᚫ᛫ᛁ᛫ᛏᚫᚺᛖ

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

Old Norse

§P ...

§Q Þiz æje, i-rioð, i yhli-afl haha! Lið tiaðe elli aiga i tahe.

English

§P ...

§Q The slave-woman, rosy-cheeked, full of yule-power (=intoxicated), may lead the horse to the pasture! It became apparent that the old one had a retinue in the tún (=his own homestead).

Object

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

Location

Parish: Bjelland sn
District: Vest-Agder fylke
Municipality: Audnedal
Placement: Bergen museum (3410g)

Sources

Reading basis: The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Reference: http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00042601_00018.html; NIæR 11; §Q: Grønvik 1996:241–254; <http://www.runenprojekt.uni-kiel.de/abfragen/standard/deutung2_eng.asp?findno=267&ort=Ågedal&objekt=brakteat (C-typ)>

Images

**B 3410 g Brakteat av gull. Revers.** —Skare, Svein; Universitetsmuseet i Bergen
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Brakteat
Gull — **Brakteat Gull** —Skare, Svein; Universitetsmuseet i Bergen
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**B 3410 g Brakteat av gull. Advers.** —Skare, Svein; Universitetsmuseet i Bergen
Source ·CC BY-SA 4.0

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