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Runic inscription

Or Barnes18

Period
Post-Viking Age m 1100-t
Location
Maeshowe

Inscription

ᛆᚱᚾᚠᛁᚦᚱ᛫ᛘᛆᛏᚱ᛫ᚱᛆᛁᛋᛏ᛫ᚱᚢᚾᛆᚱ᛫ᚦᛆᛋᛆᚱ

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

Old Norse

Arnfinnr Matr reist rúnar þessar.

English

Arnfinnr Food carved these runes.

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