Mejlbystenen
The Mejlbystenen, also known as runic inscription DR 117 from its Rundata catalog listing, is an approximately 1,000-year-old runestone originally located at Mejlby, near Randers in Denmark. According to a new interactive exhibit of the stone at the Randers Kulturhistoriske Museum, which differs slightly from the accepted Rundata translation, the stone reads:
Åne erected this stone for his son Eskil who found death with Thore in Øresund
The inscription has been classified as being carved in runestone style RAK.
Inscription
[edit]Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
[edit]- oni : risþ : stin : þansi : aft : o¶skl : sun : sin : ias : tauþr ¶ uarþ : maþ : þuri : i : ura:¶:suti :[1]
Transcription into Old Norse
[edit]- Áni reisti stein þenna ept Áskel, son sinn, er dauðr varð með Þóri í Eyrasundi.[1]
Translation in English
[edit]- Áni raised this stone in memory of Áskell, his son, who died with Þórir in The Sound.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Project Samnordisk Runtextdatabas Svensk Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine - Rundata.
