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Runic inscription

U 766

Period
Viking Age
Location
Norrby, Back-Norrby

Inscription

ᚴᚢᚦᛅᛋᛏᚱ᛫ᛚᛁᛏ᛫ᛅᚴᚢᛅ᛫ᛋᛏᛂᚾᚬ᛫ᛏᚢᚬ᛫ᚤᚠᛏᛁ᛫ᛂᛋᛏ᛫ᛋᚢᚾ᛫ᛋᛂᚾ᛫ᛅᚤᚴ᛫ᛋᛂᛚᚠᚬᚾ᛫ᛋᛁᚴ

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Old Norse

Guðfastr lét hôggva steina tvá eptir Eist, son sinn, ok sjalfan sik.

English

Guðfastr had the two stones cut in memory of Eistr, his son, and for himself.

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
gråsvart granit

Location

Parish
Vårfrukyrka sn
District
Åsunda hd
Municipality
Enköping

Sources

Carver
Livsten (S)(P)
Style group
Pr4
Other identifiers
B 639; L 717
Notes
Parsten till U 767.

Images

U766 Back-Norrby

U766 Back-Norrby —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