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Mejlbystenen

Coordinates: 56°31′10″N 10°05′01″E / 56.51944°N 10.08361°E / 56.51944; 10.08361
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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

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Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters

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oni : risþ : stin : þansi : aft : o¶skl : sun : sin : ias : tauþr ¶ uarþ : maþ : þuri : i : ura:¶:suti :[1]

Transcription into Old Norse

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Áni reisti stein þenna ept Áskel, son sinn, er dauðr varð með Þóri í Eyrasundi.[1]

Translation in English

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Áni raised this stone in memory of Áskell, his son, who died with Þórir in The Sound.[1]

References

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56°31′10″N 10°05′01″E / 56.51944°N 10.08361°E / 56.51944; 10.08361