Runic inscription
Or Barnes20
- Period
- Post-Viking Age m 1100-t
- Location
- Maeshowe
Inscription
§A᛫ᚦᛁᛋᛆᚱ᛫ᚱᚢᚾᛆᚱ
§B᛫ᚱᛁᛋᛏ᛫ᛋᛆ᛫ᛘᛆᚦᚱ᛫ᛂᚱ᛫ᚱᚢᚾᛋᛏᚱ᛫ᛂᚱ᛫ᚠᚤᚱᛁᚱ
§C᛫ᚢᛆᛋᛏᛆᚾ᛫ᚼᛆᚠ
§D᛫ᛘᛆᚦ᛫ᚦᛆᛁᚱᛁ᛫ᚯᚼᛋᛂ᛫ᛂᚱ᛫ᛆᛏᛂ᛫ᚴᚯᚢᚴᚱ᛫ᛏᚱᛆᚾᛁᛚᛋᚮᚾᚱ᛫ᚠᚤᚱᛁᚱ᛫ᛋᚢᚾᛆᚾ᛫ᛚᛆᚾᛏ
This is a normalized form and may not represent the exact runic forms in the inscription.
Old Norse
§A Þessar rúnar
§B reist sá maðr, er rúnstr er fyrir
§C vestan haf,
§D með þeiri øxi, er átti Gaukr Trandils sonr fyrir sunnan land.
English
§A That man who is most rune-skilled west of the sea carved these runes
§D with that axe which Gaukr Trandill's son owned in the south of the country (= Iceland).
Data from the Scandinavian Runic-text Database:nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm
