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Runic inscription

U 703

Period
Viking Age
Location
Västra Väppeby

Inscription

-ᛋᚢᛁ᛫ᛚᛂᛏ᛫ᚱᚾᛁᛋᛅ᛫ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛁᛋᛅ᛫ᛅᛏ᛫ᛅᚾᚢᛚᚠ᛫ᛋᚢᚾ᛫ᛋᛂᚾ᛫ᚴᚬᚦᛅᚾ᛫ᚼᛅᚾ᛫ᛒᚤᚴᛁ᛫ᚼᛂᚱ᛫...-᛫ᛘᛅᚾᛏᚱ᛫ᛘᛅᛏᛅᚱ᛫-ᚬ-ᚱ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛘᛚᛋ᛫ᚱᛁᛋᛁᛅ

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Old Norse

Ásvé lét reisa stein þenna at Arnulf, son sinn góðan. Hann bjó hér ..., maðr matar góðr ok máls risinn.

English

Ásvé had this stone raised in memory of Arnulfr, her good son. He lived here ... a man free with food and eloquent.

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
granit

Location

Parish
Veckholms sn
District
Trögds hd
Municipality
Enköping

Sources

Carver
Balle (A)
Style group
Pr3
Notes
Stille (1999b:37) läser det näst sista ordet som m(a)(-)s

Images

U703 Västra Väppeby

U703 Västra Väppeby —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