The Närke Runic Inscription 29 is a Viking Age runestone engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark runic alphabet. It is dark grey granite and it is located in Apelboda, Glanshammars parish, in Örebro Municipality.[1] The style is Pr1.[1] The stone is 2.15 m high and 0.95 m wide.[2]
The stone is notable in the way it expresses the zeitgeist of the Viking Age with the alliterating expression: Hann vaʀ farinn fulldrængila.[2] i.e. "He had travelled valiantly". The adverb drængila is derived from the noun drængʀ which means "as befits a man", and it is found in several other runestones, such as Sö 113, Sö 130, Sö 164 and Sö 179.[2] This is the only source for the compound adverb fulldrængila outside of Iceland, where it is attested a few times in skaldic poetry, as in Strophe 15 of Austrfararvisur, from the beginning of the 11th c., and from Einarr Gilsson (14th c.).[2] The adjective fulldrengiligr is known from Egil's Saga (ch. 8).[2]
Inscription
bofriþr
Bofriðr/Botfriðr/Botfreðr
:
let
let
resa
ræisa
eftir
æftiʀ
biurn
Biorn,
:
bruþur
broður
:
si(n)
sinn.
:
han
Hann
uar
vaʀ
farin
farinn
fultrekila
fulldrængila.
"Bófríðr/Bótfríðr/Bótfreðr had (the stone) raised in memory of Bjôrn, her/his brother. He had travelled valiantly." [1]
References
- ^ a b c Scandinavian Runic-text Database - Rundata.
- ^ a b c d e Sven B.F. Jansson (1975). Sveriges runinskrifter: XIV. Närkes runinskrifter del 1. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. ISBN 91-7192-204-0. p. 89-92
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