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Runic inscription

U 405

Period
Viking Age
Location
Ekerö kyrka

Inscription

ᛚᚬᚦᛁᚾ᛫--ᛏ᛫ᚱᛅᛁᛋᛅ᛫ᛋᛏ...᛫...᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋ-...᛫...--...᛫...ᚾ᛫ᚵᚢᚦ᛫ᚼᛁᛅᛚᛒᛁ᛫ᛅᚾᛏ᛫ᚼᛅᚾᛋ᛫ᚦᚢᚱᛒᛁᚢᚱᚾ᛫ᚼᛁᚢᚴ

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

Old Norse

Loðinn lét reisa stein ... fôður sinn ... sinn(?). Guð hjalpi ônd hans. Þorbjôrn hjó.

English

Loðinn had the stone raised ... his father ... his(?) ... May God help his spirit. Þorbjôrn cut.

Object

Object type
6 fragment av runsten
Material category
sten
Material
röd sandsten

Location

Parish
Ekerö sn
District
Färentuna hd
Municipality
Ekerö
Placement
Två fragment i vapenhuset, fyra fragment deponerade i Sigtuna museum (SHM 29973)

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Carver
Torbjörn 3 (S); Torbjörn skald (S) [Källström 1999:50ff]
Style group
Pr1
Other identifiers
U Fv1954;1
Reference
Källström 1999:26ff; Fv 1954:1, http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1950talet/1954_001.pdf
Notes
Tidigare förd till Sigtuna, två fragment påträffades vid restaurering 1952.

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