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Author: * Wagnijo Scylding -
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Date: Dec 21, 2002 - 10:54
Finn Folcwalding
The runestone in question is the Karlevi Stone on Öland
and the verse is commemorating the otherwise obscure Sibbi the Good:
"This stone is placed in memory of Sibbi the Good, Foldan's son, and his retainer placed on Öland this memorial to honour the dead.
Not content with setting up a permanent memorial to his leader that still stands a millennium later, the unnamed follower also commissioned (or perhaps even composed) a memorial verse to Sibbi, and this verse forns the second part of the inscription
"Fulkin : likr : hins : FulkŞu : flaistr (:)* uisi : Şat * maistar * taiŞir : tulka ŞruŞar : traukr : i : Şaimsi * huki : munat : raiŞ : uiŞur : raŞa : ruk : starkr * i *: tanmarku --(n)tils : iarmun ** kruntar : urkron-tari : lonti"
Folginn liggr hinns fylgğu,
flestr vissi pat, mestar
dæğir dolga Şrúğar
draugr í Şessu haugi.
Munat reiğ- Viğur rağa
rógstarkr í Danmórku
Endils jormungrundar
ørgrandari landi.
Hidden in this mound lies one, an executor of the goddess of battles [valkyrie~warior], whom the greatest deeds followed (most knew that). No strife-strong god of the wagon of Endill's wide ground [sea~ship~captain] will rule land in Denmark more faultlessly."
This is from 'Ships and Men in the Late Vikingage'
by Judith Jesch.
Cheers
Wagnijo
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