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Runic inscription

Or 10

Period
Post-Viking Age
Location
Orphir (I)

Inscription

ᛁᚴ᛫ᛁᚱ᛫ᚵᛁᚱᚵᛁᛆ᛫ᚴᚮᚦ᛫ᛚᛁᚢᚠ᛫ᛋ-...᛫...

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

Old Norse

Eng(?) er kirkja goði(?) ljúf(?) sem(?) ...

English

No(?) church is pleasing(?) to(?) God(?) as(?) ...

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten

Location

District
Mainland, Orkney
Placement
Kirkwall, Orkney Museum (OM 690)

Sources

Rune types
grönländska r-runor
Other identifiers
Br Or10
Reference
Barnes 1992:40; Barnes & Page 2006
Notes
Tidigare signum: Br Or10.

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