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Runic inscription

Sm 46

Period
Viking Age
Location
Eriksstad

Inscription

...ᚾᚢᛁ᛫ᚴᚱᚦᛁ᛫ᚴᚢᛒᛚ᛫ᚦᛂᛋᛁ᛫ᛁᚠᛏᛁᛦ᛫ᛋᚢᛁᚾ᛫ᛋᚢᚾ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛁᛘ᛫ᛁᛏᛅᚦᛁᛋᚴ᛫ᚬᚢᛏᚱ᛫ᛁ᛫ᚴᚱᛁᚴᚢᛘ

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Old Norse

...vé gerði kuml þessi eptir Svein, son sinn, er endaðist austr í Grikkjum.

English

...-vé made these monuments in memory of Sveinn, her son, who met his end in the east in Greece.

Images

Sm 46, Erikstad

Sm 46, Erikstadsv:Johan Gustaf Liljegren (in LfB); Kinander, Ragnar (1935-1961). Sveriges runinskrifter: IV. Smålands runinskrifter. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. ISSN 0562-8016, p. 145

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