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Runic inscription

Sm 163

Period
Viking Age
Location
Arby kyrkogård

Inscription

...-᛫ᚱ--ᛋᛅ᛫ᚴᚢᛘᛚ᛫ᛁᚠᛏᛁᛦ᛫ᛒᚬᚠᛅ᛫...

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Old Norse

... reisa kuml eptir Bófa ...

English

... raised the monument in memory of Bófi ...

Object

Object type
fragment av runsten
Material category
sten
Material
ölandskalksten

Location

Parish
Arby sn
District
Södra Möre hd
Municipality
Kalmar
Placement
I Arby kyrka.

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Other identifiers
L 1290a
Reference
Fv 1974:209, http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1970talet/1974_208.pdf

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