Skåäng Runestone

Runefacts|name=Skåäng Runestone
rundataid=Sö 32 U/V

country=Sweden
region=Södermanland
city=Skåäng
produced= 6th Century
artist= Unknown
text_native=Proto-Norse and Old Norse :See article.| text_english=See article.
picture=

The Skåäng Runestone is an Iron Age runestone which is inscribed in Proto-Norse with the Elder Futhark. During the Viking Age, other people added an inscription in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark.

The Elder Futhark inscription is harija ÷ leugaz which is interpreted as the Proto-Norse names "Harija" and "Leugaz". The name "Harija" is a hypocoristic form of names ending with -"harjaz" ("warrior"), or a name beginning with "Harja-", and it is part of the place name "Häringe". The name "Leugaz" is a nomen agentis of the same word as the Gothic "liugan" ("swear an oath"). Between the two names there is a rune (the shape of Younger Futhark "hagall"), but there is no consensus on how to interpret it.

The Younger Futhark text says
*skanmals auk × olauf × þau × litu × kiara × merki × þausi × eftiR × suain × faþur × sin kuþ × hialbi salu hans

This inscription represents the Old Norse
*"Skammhals ok Olof þau letu gæra mærki þausi æftiR Svæin, faður sinn. Guð hialpi salu hans."

In English the Old Norse inscription means
*"Skammhals and Ólôf, they had these landmarks made in memory of Sveinn, their father. May God help his soul."

ources

*The article " [http://runeberg.org/nfce/0706.html Skåängstenen] " in "Nordisk familjebok" (1917).
*Rundata
*cite web| url=http://www.sofi.se/images/NA/pdf/urnord.pdf |title=Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn | last=Peterson |first=Lena |year=2007 |publisher=Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore(Lexicon of Nordic personal names before the 8th century)