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Runic inscription

U 1080

Period
Viking Age
Location
Forkarby

Inscription

ᛋᛁᚼᛅᛏᚱ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚴᛅᚱᛚ᛫ᛚᛁᛏᚢ᛫ᚱᛅᛁᛋᛅ᛫ᛋᛏ...᛫ᛂᚠᛏᛁᛦ᛫ᚼᛅᛚᚠᛏᛅᚾ᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ

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

Old Norse

Sighvatr ok Karl létu reisa stein eptir Halfdan, fôður sinn.

English

Sighvatr and Karl had the stone raised in memory of Halfdan, their father.

Object

Object type
fragment av runsten
Material category
sten
Material
röd granit

Location

Parish
Bälinge sn
District
Bälinge hd
Municipality
Uppsala
Placement
Vid Sundbro.

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Carver
Öpir 1 (A) [knappast Öpir, för få runor för attr., Åhlén 1997]
Style group
Pr5?
Other identifiers
B 457; L 157
Reference
Fv 1978:225, http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1970talet/1978_220.pdf
Notes
Fragmenten har varit inmurade i husets källare. Prydd med en repstav nedtill.

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