Gotland Runic Inscription 207

Young woman presenting G 207 to her right.

The Gotland Runic Inscription 207 is a Viking Age runestone engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark runic alphabet. It is from c. 1100 and is located behind the organ in the tower room of Stenkumla Church on Gotland.[1] It is raised in memory of a man who had been south with his comrades selling pelts, but he was killed in Ulvshale on the Danish island of Møn.[2]

Inscription

butmuntr

Botmundr

:

 

auk

ok

:

 

butraifʀ

Botræifʀ

:

 

auk

ok

:

 

kunu[ar

Gunnvarr

:

 

þaiʀ

þæiʀ

:

 

raistu

ræistu

:

 

stain

stæin

...arþi

...

:

 

karþ]

garð

:

 

auk

ok

:

 

sunarla

sunnarla

:

 

sat

sat

:

 

miþ

með

:

 

skinum

skinnum.

:

 

auk

Ok

:

 

han

hann

:

 

entaþis

ændaðis

:

 

at

at

:

 

ulfshala

Ulfshala/Ulvshale

:

 

þa

...

:

 

[¶

 

han

...

:

 

hil(k)(i)...]

...

butmuntr : auk : butraifʀ : auk : kunu[ar : þaiʀ : raistu : stain ...arþi : karþ] : auk : sunarla : sat : miþ : skinum : auk : han : entaþis : at : ulfshala : þa : [¶ han : hil(k)(i)...]

Botmundr {} ok {} Botræifʀ {} ok {} Gunnvarr {} þæiʀ {} ræistu {} stæin ... {} garð {} ok {} sunnarla {} sat {} með {} skinnum. {} Ok {} hann {} ændaðis {} at {} Ulfshala/Ulvshale {} ... {} {} ... {} ...

"Bótmundr and Bótreifr and Gunnvarr, they raised the stone ... farm and sat in the south with the skins (= traded fur). And he met his end at Ulfshala/Ulvshale ..."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Scandinavian Runic-text Database - Rundata.
  2. ^ Sven B.F. Jansson; Wessén, Elias; Svärdström, Elisabeth (1978). Sveriges runinskrifter: XII. Gotlands runinskrifter del 2. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. ISBN 91-7402-056-0. p. 198-210