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Runic inscription

Or 15

Period
Viking Age
Location
Orphir (II)

Inscription

...-ᛐᛆ᛫ᛓᛆᛁᚿ᛫ᚢᛆᛌ᛫ᛁ-ᚢ--...

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

Old Norse

Þetta bein var ...

English

This bone was ...

Object

Object type
runben, revben
Material category
ben/horn
Material
ben

Location

District
Mainland, Orkney
Placement
Kirkwall, Orkney Museum (OM.EB.314)

Sources

Rune types
kortkvist
Other identifiers
Br Or15
Reference
Barnes 1992:40; Barnes & Page 2006
Notes
Tidigare signum: Br Or15.

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