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Runic inscription

U 978

Period
Viking Age
Location
Gamla Uppsala kyrka

Inscription

ᛋᛁᚼᚢᛁᚦᚱ᛫...-ᛁ᛫ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛁᚾᛅ᛫ᛁᚴᛚᛅᛏᛋᚠᛅᚱᛁ᛫ᛁᚠᛏᛁᚱ᛫ᚢᛁᛏᛅᚱᚠ᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫-...᛫...ᛋᛁᛅ...᛫...ᚴᚢ---

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

Old Norse

Sigviðr reisti stein þenna Englandsfari eptir Védjarf, fôður ... ... ...

English

Sigviðr, traveller to England, raised this stone in memory of Védjarfr, (his) father ... ... ...

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
ljusröd sandsten

Location

Parish
Gamla Uppsala sn (nu Uppsala)
District
Vaksala hd
Municipality
Uppsala
Placement
Inmurad utvändigt i absidväggen.

Sources

Carver
Erik (A) [Källström 2014a]
Style group
Pr2
Other identifiers
B 387; L 184

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