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Kingittorsuaq Runestone
Runestone in Greenland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Kingittorsuaq Runestone (old spelling: Kingigtorssuaq), listed as GR 1 in the Rundata catalog, is a runestone that was found on Kingittorsuaq Island, an island in the Upernavik Archipelago in northwestern Greenland.
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The Kingittorsuaq Runestone was found in 1824 in a group of three cairns that formed an equilateral triangle on top of the mountain on Kingittorsuaq Island in the south-central part of the Upernavik Archipelago. The stone is now located at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
The stone has been dated to the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia states the date as April 25, 1135. Others have dated the stone between 1250 and 1333.[1] However, as the historian Finn Gad has pointed out, the date given on the stone can be interpreted in various ways. As such, it cannot, as previously thought, be taken as evidence for the three hunters named on the stone in this region.[2]
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el^likr
Erlingr
·
sikuaþs
Sighvats
:
so^n:r
sonr
·
ok
ok
·
baan^ne
Bjarni
:
torta^r
Þórðar
son
sonr
:
¶
⁓
ok
ok
:
enriþi
Eindriði
·
os
Odds
son
sonr
:
laukardak·in
laugardagin
:
fyrir
fyrir
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gakndag
gagndag
¶
hloþu
hlóðu
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ua^rda
varða
te
þe[ssa]
·
ok
ok
rydu
…
:
??????
…
Erlingr Sighvatrs son and Bjarni Þorðr's son and Eindriði Oddr's son, constructed these cairns the Saturday before Rogation Day, and … [3]
The first line is the transcription verbatim; the second line is the normalized Old Norse version. A ^ mark indicates a bind rune; for example a^r indicates that ᛆᚱ is written as a single glyph. A ~ indicates an unspecified punctuation mark.[4]
Undeciphered runes
 | This section possibly contains original research. (October 2024) |
The six runes following the translated text are undeciphered, though they do have very close single-character components. The first two and final runes appear to have two components, a Sowilō (ᛋ) with a Mannaz (ᛘ) and/or Algiz (ᛉ) on the top and bottom. The following three runes appear also to have the top and bottom Mannaz or Algiz, just with a Jēran (ᛄ) instead.[5]
Some believe that they are meaningless, while others believe that it contains a secret message.[1]
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