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Runic inscription

U 590

Period
Viking Age
Location
Burvik

Inscription

ᚱᛅᚾᛒᛦᛅᚱᚾ᛫ᛚᛦᛏ᛫ᚱᛅᛋᛅ᛫ᛋᛏᛅᚾ᛫ᛅᚠᛏᛦ᛫ᛋᛅᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛅᚾ᛫ᚢᛦᚼᛦᛅᛚᛘ᛫ᚾᚢᚴ᛫ᚠᚢᛁᛚᚼᛦ᛫ᚠᚱᛁᚼᛅᛋ᛫ᛅᚱᚠᛦ᛫ᚢᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ

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Old Norse

Ragnbjôrn lét reisa stein eptir svær(?) sinn Víghjalm/Véhjalm, ok Fullugi(?), Freygeirs(?) arfi, Eysteinn.

English

Ragnbjôrn had the stone raised in memory of his stepfather(?) Víghjalmr/Véhjalmr, and Fullugi(?) Freygeirr's(?) heir. Eysteinn.

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
vitröd granit

Location

Parish
Knutby sn
District
Närdinghundra hd
Municipality
Uppsala

Sources

Carver
Östen 2 (S)
Style group
Pr3?
Other identifiers
B 570; L 288

Images

U590 Knutby

U590 Knutby —Lars Kennerstedt; Lars Kennerstedt / 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 .

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