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Runic inscription

U 809

Period
Viking Age
Location
Härvesta, Nopskäl

Inscription

ᛒᚢᚱᚾ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᚴᛁᛋᛚ᛫ᚱᛁᛋᛏᚢ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛁᚾᛋᛁ᛫ᛂᚠᛏᛁᚱ᛫ᛅᚾᛏᚢᛁᛏ᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛒᚢᚴᛁ᛫ᚼᛂᚱᚠᛁᛋᛏᛅᛘ᛫ᚠᚱᛂᚾᛏᛅ᛫ᚴᛅᚱᚦᛅᚱᛋ

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Old Norse

Bjôrn ok Gísl reistu stein þenna eptir Andvétt, fôður sinn; bjó í Hervistôðum, frænda Gerðars.

English

Bjôrn and Gísl raised this stone in memory of Andvéttr, their father, Gerðarr's kinsman (who) lived in Hervistaðir.

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
gnejsgranit

Location

Parish
Fröslunda sn
District
Lagunda hd
Municipality
Enköping

Sources

Carver
Torbjörn 2 (A), Brates attribution ej sannolik, Stille (1999b) attribuerar stenen till Torbjörn 2, jämför dock Källström 1999:86ff.
Style group
Fp
Other identifiers
L 746

Images

U809 Härvesta

U809 Härvesta —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