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Runic inscription

Or 18

Period
Viking Age
Location
Skaill Home Farm

Inscription

§A᛫ᚦᚢᚱᚠᛁᚾᚱ᛫ᚱ----᛫-----᛫--ᚾ-᛫--...᛫...

§B᛫...

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

Old Norse

§A Þorfinnr reisti(?) stein(?) þenna(?) eptir(?) ...

§B ...

English

§A Þorfinnr raised(?) the stone(?) in memory of(?) ...

§B ...

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
sandsten

Location

Parish
Sandwick
District
Mainland, Orkney
Placement
Kirkwall, Orkney Museum (1997.125)

Sources

Other identifiers
Br Or18
Reference
NOR 1997:21, http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-44956; Barnes & Page 2006
Notes
16-18 runor även på baksidan. Tidigare signum: Br Or18.

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