Gotland Runic Inscription 207

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

butraifʀ

Botræifʀ

auk

kunu[ar

Gunnvarr

þaiʀ

þæiʀ

raistu

ræistu

stain

stæin

...arþi

...

karþ]

garð

auk

sunarla

sunnarla

sat

miþ

með

skinum

skinnum.

auk

han

hann

entaþis

ændaðis

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

^ ^a ^b Scandinavian Runic-text Database - Rundata.
^ 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