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Runestone Sö 216

Runestone Sö 216. Illustration: Jonas Lau Markussen (CC BY).

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Sö 216

Aska, Södermanland, Sweden (now lost)

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The carvings of the stone pertain to the group of unornamented runestones known as RAK (c. 980?-1015), contemporary with the early Ringerike style.

The inscription is not signed.

The size is unknown.

Runic inscription

The rune text begins at the head/tail end of the animal.

Runes

[ᚢᛏᛅᚱ ᛬ ᛅᚢᚴ ᛬ -… … [ᛅᚾᛏᛅ]ᚦᛁᛋ ᛬ ᛅ=ᚢᛋᛏᚱ ×… …ᚢᚴ-ᛘᛅ]

Transliteration

[(u)tar : auk : -… … …þis : a=ustr × …uk-ma]

Old Norse

Ottarr ok … … [ænda]ðis austr …

English

Óttarr and … … met his end in the east …

Notes

The stone was found c. 1850 and broken into several pieces. The inscription was discovered afterwards, and a couple of the pieces were recorded before being used as building blocks.