Runic rock inscription Gerlögs runa, U29, L2017:9831 in Hilleshög parish, Ekerö municipality

Runic inscription

raþ| |þu kaiRmuntr -ik · kaiR[l]a[uk ·] (m)aytumi| |i þa · finku · þau sun · aþ han · truknaþi · in sun to : siþan : þa + fi(k) (h)(u)- --þrik · ha- ... (þ)(i)nsa · þa · finku þa(u) [bar](n) ... (i)(n) maR ain lifþi · [hu]n hit ' ...g[a] ' h(a)... fik raknfastr · i · snutastaþum · þa uarþ han tauþr · auk · sun · siþan · in · moþir kuam + at sunar ' arfi ' þa ' fik hun ' airik ' þar ' uarþ hun tauþ ' þar kuam ' gaiRlauk at arfi ' inku tutur sinar þurbiur(n) ' skalt ' risti runar

Inscription

Translation

Interpret! Geirmundr got Geirlaug (to wife) in her maidenhood. Then they got a son, before he (= Geirmundr) drowned. And then the son died. Then she got Guðríkr. He ... this. Then they got children. And one maid lived; she was called Inga. Ragnfastr of Snotastaðir got her (to wife). Then he died, and thereafter the son. And the mother came to inherit from her son. Then she got Eiríkr. Then she died. Then Geirlaug came to inherit from Inga, her daughter. Þorbjôrn Skald carved the runes.

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Runic rock inscription Gerlögs runa, U29, L2017:9831 in Hilleshög parish, Ekerö municipality

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Facts

Monument number	L2017:9831
Swedish National Heritage Board ID	Hilleshög 41:1
Carver	Torbjörn skald (S)
Status	Confirmed on location
Place	Visible above ground
Period	Viking age
Antiquarian assessment	Ancient monument
Damage status	Damage
County	Stockholm
Municipality	Ekerö
Parish	Hilleshög
Coordinates	59.388085, 17.7048805

Sources

Most of the factual information in Runkartan comes from the Swedish National Heritage Board’s Fornsök data and from the Scandinavian Runic Text Database. The maps come from OpenStreetMap and Leaflet.js. The photographs were taken by the credited photographers.