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Runic inscription

U 885

Period
Viking Age
Location
Ingla

Inscription

ᚢᛁᚴᛦ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛋᛁᚼᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛫ᛅᚢᚴᛅᚱᛚ᛫ᚦᛅᛁᛦ᛫ᛚᛁᛏᚢ᛫ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛫ᚱᛁᛏᛅ᛫ᛅᛏ᛫ᛋᛁᚼᛅᛏ᛫ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛁᚢ

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Old Norse

Vígr ok Sigsteinn ok Karl þeir létu stein rétta at Sighvat, fôður sinn <iu>.

English

Vígr and Sigsteinn and Karl, they had the stone erected in memory of Sighvatr, their father ...

Object

Object type
runsten
Material category
sten
Material
ljusröd granit

Location

Parish
Skogstibble sn (nu Skogs-Tibble)
District
Hagunda hd
Municipality
Uppsala

Sources

Carver
Åsmund (A)
Style group
Pr4
Other identifiers
B 368; L 79

Images

U885 Ingla

U885 Ingla —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