Runic inscription

U 644

Period: Viking Age
Location: Ekilla bro

Inscription

ᛅᚾᚢᛁᛏᚱ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚴᛁᛏᛁ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚴᛅᚱ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛒᛚᛁᛋᛁ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛏᛁᛅᚱᚠᚱ᛫ᚦᛁᚱ᛫ᚱᛅᛁᛋᛏᚢ᛫ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛁᚾᛅ᛫ᛅᚠᛏᛁᛦ᛫ᚴᚢᚾᛚᛅᛁᚠ᛫ᚠᚬᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᚼᛅᚾ᛫ᚠᛁᛚ᛫ᛅᚢᛋᛏᚱ᛫ᛘᛁᚦ᛫ᛁᚴᚢᛅᚱᛁ᛫ᚴᚢᚦ᛫ᚼᛂᛅᛒᛁ᛫ᚬᚾᛏᛁᚾᛁ

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

Old Norse

Andvéttr ok <kiti> ok Kárr ok Blesi ok Djarfr þeir reistu stein þenna eptir Gunnleif, fôður sinn. Hann fell austr með Ingvari. Guð hjalpi ôndinni.

English

Andvéttr and <kiti> and Kárr and Blesi and Djarfr, they raised this stone in memory of Gunnleifr, their father. He fell in the east with Ingvarr. May God help (his) spirit.

Object

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

Location

Parish: Yttergrans sn
District: Håbo hd
Municipality: Håbo

Sources

Reading basis: The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Carver: Alrik (A); Äskil 2 (A)
Style group: Fp
Other identifiers: B 334; L 47
Reference: Fältex. C
Notes: Stille (2004) föreslår tolkningen Gildi av runföljden kiti, jämför NRL s. 300.

Images

**U 644, Ekilla bro** —Berig; Own work; I, Berig
Source ·CC BY 2.5

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