Runic inscription

U 586

Period: Viking Age b 1000-t
Location: Bro

Inscription

ᚴᚢᚾᛒᛁᚱᚾ᛫ᚢᚴ᛫ᚬᛋᛒᛁᚱᚾ᛫ᚢᚴ᛫ᛋᛁᚴᚢᛅᛏᚱ᛫ᚦᛁᛦ᛫ᛚᛁᛏᚢ᛫ᚱᛁᛋᛅ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛁᚾᛅ᛫ᛁᚠᛏᛁᛦ᛫ᛏᚢᚴᛅ᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᚴᚢᚦᛅᚾ᛫ᚴᚢᚦ᛫ᛁᛅᛚᛒᛁ᛫ᛅᚾᛋ᛫-ᛏ᛫ᚢᚴ᛫ᛋᛅᛚᚢ᛫ᛒᛁᛏᚱ᛫ᚦᛅᚾ᛫ᛅᚾ᛫ᚴᛅᚱᚦᛁ᛫ᛏᛁᛚ᛫ᚢᛚᛘᚠᚱᛁᛦ᛫ᛚᛁᛏ᛫ᚴᚱᛅ᛫ᛒᚱᚢ

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

Old Norse

Gunnbjôrn ok Ásbjôrn ok Sighvatr þeir létu reisa stein þenna eptir Tóka, fôður sinn góðan. Guð hjalpi hans ônd ok sálu betr en hann gerði til. Holmfríðr lét gera brú.

English

Gunnbjôrn and Ásbjôrn and Sighvatr, they had this stone raised in memory of Tóki, their good father. May God help his spirit and soul better than he deserved. Holmfríðr had the bridge made.

Object

Object type: runsten
Material category: sten
Material: granit

Location

Parish: Edsbro sn
District: Närdinghundra hd
Municipality: Norrtälje

Sources

Reading basis: The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Carver: Gunnar (A)
Style group: RAK
Other identifiers: B 569; L 285
Reference: ATA Dnr 4144/52, ATA Dnr 2763/72, Fv 1954 s. 9, http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1950talet/1954_001.pdf
Notes: Oornerade slingor. Ett fragment med passning funnet 1952. En runslinga med ett 15-tal svagt skönjbara runor på baksidan.

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