Runic inscription

U 1052

Period: Viking Age
Location: Axlunda

Inscription

ᚴᛂᚠᛁᛅᛚᛏᚱ᛫ᚬᚴ᛫ᛒᚬᚱᚠᛅᛋᛏᚱ᛫ᚬᚴ᛫ᛅᚾᛁᛏᚢᛁᛏᚱ᛫ᚬᚴ᛫ᚦᛂᛚᚠᛁ᛫ᚦᛅᛦ᛫ᛚᛁᛏᚢ᛫ᚱᛁᛏᛅ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᛂᛏᛁᛦ᛫ᛁᚬᚾ᛫ᚠᚱᛂᛏᛅ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛁᚴᚢᛚᚠᚱ᛫ᛁᚬᚴ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛂᛚᚠᛁ᛫ᛁᚬᚴ᛫ᛋᛏᛂᚾ

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

Old Norse

Gjafaldr ok Borgfastr ok Andvéttr ok Þjalfi þeir létu rétta stein eptir Jón, frænda sinn. Ingulfr hjó stein. Þjalfi hjó stein.

English

Gjafaldr and Borgfastr and Andvéttr and Þjalfi, they had the stone erected in memory of Jón, their kinsman. Ingulfr cut the stone. Þjalfi cut the stone.

Object

Object type: runsten
Material category: sten
Material: ljus nästan vit granit

Location

Parish: Björklinge sn
District: Norunda hd
Municipality: Uppsala

Sources

Carver: Ingulv (S); Tjälve 2 (S)
Style group: Pr4
Other identifiers: B 526; L 253
Notes: Prydd med skeppsbild.

Images

**U1052 Axlunda** —Bengt A. Lundberg; Bengt A Lundberg / Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Swedish National Heritage Board as part of the cooperation project Connected Open Heritage with Wikimedia Sverige . This file was made available by Riksantikvarieämbetet as part of the Connected Open Heritage project. The project is led by Wikimedia Sverige in cooperation with UNESCO, Wikimedia Italia and Cultural Heritage without Borders and is financed by a project grant from the Culture Foundation of the Swedish Postcode Lottery .; Bengt A Lundberg / Riksantikvarieämbetet
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Data from the Scandinavian Runic-text Database:nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm