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Runic inscription

Sm 20

Period
Viking Age
Location
Rottnekvarn

Inscription

§A᛫--ᚱ-ᚢᚠ--ᚢ᛫ᚦᛆᛁᛧ᛫ᛁᛧᚢ᛫--ᚦ--ᚢ-ᚢ--ᚿᛓ᛫ᛂᚠᚱ--ᛆᛁ᛫ᚢᛆᚱᛁᚿ᛫ᛁᛧ᛫ᚢᚴᚢ᛫ᛓᚢᛐᚱ᛫ᚦᛁᚢ

§B᛫------------------

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

Old Norse

§A ... þeir eru ... <afr--ai> Varin, er hjoggu bœndr <þiu>.

§B ...

English

§A ... they were ... ... Varinn, who the husbandmen cut down(?) ...

§B ...

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten

Location

Parish
Söraby sn
District
Norrvidinge hd
Municipality
Växjö

Sources

Inscription status
Lost; it is not known to survive
Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Style group
RAK
Rune types
kortkvist
Other identifiers
B 1007; L 1280
Reference
Johnsen 1968:163

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