Vg 199 Norra Lundby : Ett tolkningsförslag

Fredrik Valdeson (Författare)

URI http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-438137, URN urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-438137, DOI 10.33063/diva-438137

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2021

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Futhark · ISSN 1892-0950

11, 119-135

Bidrag, Onlineresurs

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Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature, Specific Languages, Humaniora och konst, Språk och litteratur, Studier av enskilda språk, runestone, “nonsense” inscription, Viking Age, Vg 199 Norra Lundby, DR 131 Års, runic poetry

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Sammanfattning

This article presents an attempt to interpret the Viking Age runic inscription Vg 199 Norra Lundby based partially on a new reading. The inscription has hitherto been considered to lack linguistic meaning. The interpretation runs as follows: [Stæinn] kveðsk hēr[si] s[tand]a længi. Kveðsk Hialms Gunna hald[a …] … …ṃiþ : ka… … Gott orð bar . ‘The stone proclaims that it will long stand here. (It) proclaims that it will preserve Hialmʀ’s Gunni … …ṃiþ : ka… . (He) had a good reputation.’ Since a relatively large part of the stone is missing, some of the runic sequences associated with the lacunae cannot be interpreted with certainty. A possible but purely speculative interpretation is nonetheless offered. It is in any case beyond doubt that the inscription is in fact linguistically meaningful. Vg 199 bears a strong resemblance to the inscription on the Jutlandic stone DR 131 Års, and just like that one, it is most likely formulated in verse. Remarkably, Vg 199 lacks a proper memorial formula. This suggests that the accompanying memorial formulation was inscribed on a separate stone.