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Runic inscription

U 860

Period
Viking Age
Location
Måsta

Inscription

ᚠᛅᛋᛏᛒᛁᚢᚱᚾ᛫ᚢᚴ᛫ᚦᚢᚱᚢᚦᚱ᛫ᛚᛁᛏᚢ᛫ᚱᛁᛏᛅ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛁᚾᚬ᛫ᛅᛒᛏᛁᛦ᛫ᛁᚾᚴᛁᚠᛅᛋᛏ᛫ᛒᚢᛅᚾᛏᛅ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᚴᚢᛁᚦ᛫ᚼᛁᛅᛚᛒᛁ᛫ᚼᚬᚾᛋ᛫ᛅᚾᛏ᛫ᚢᚴᚢᚦᛋ᛫ᛘᚢᚦᛁᛦ

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Old Norse

Fastbjôrn ok Þórunnr létu rétta stein þenna eptir Ingifast, bónda sinn. Guð hjalpi hans ônd ok Guðs móðir.

English

Fastbjôrn and Þórunnr had this stone erected in memory of Ingifastr, their husbandman. May God and God's mother help his spirit.

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
ljusröd granit med gråa inslag

Location

Parish
Balingsta sn
District
Hagunda hd
Municipality
Uppsala
Placement
Vid Balingsta by.

Sources

Reading basis
The reading or interpretation was supplemented from a later source
Carver
Åsmund (A)
Style group
Pr3
Other identifiers
B 363; L 90
Reference
Fältex. A

Images

U860 Måsta

U860 Måsta —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