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Runic inscription

Sm 39

Period
Viking Age
Location
Ryssby kyrka

Inscription

§A᛫ᚴᚢᚾᛁ᛫ᛋᛅᛏᛁ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛅᚾᛅ᛫ᛁᚠᛏᛁᛦ

§B᛫ᛋᚢᚾᛅ᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛘᛁᛚᛅᚾ᛫ᚢ...᛫...᛫ᛘᛅᛏᛅᛦ᛫ᚴᚢᚦᛅ...

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

Old Norse

§A Gunni setti stein þenna eptir

§B Sona, fôður sinn, mildan orða ok matar góðan.

English

§A Gunni placed this stone in memory of

§B Soni, his father, gentle in speech and free with food.

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
medelkornig gnejs

Location

Parish
Ryssby sn
District
Sunnerbo hd
Municipality
Ljungby

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Style group
RAK? [Gräslund muntligt]
Rune types
stungna m-runor, k-runor med bistav till vänster
Reference
Fv 1964:227, http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1960talet/1964_225.pdf

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