Rune sheet

Bronze runic plate with inscriptions on both sides. The plate is no bigger than a fingernail, but it has traces of around 30 runes separated into two lines. The runes are only a couple of millimetres high. The interpretation which has been made is that the text is part of an incantation directed towards the person buried in the mound. But the inscription is too damaged for its meaning to be distinguished, even if certain words can be made out. An example is skaði, which can mean ’harm, misfortune’, but also ’murder, bane, death’. It may be that the plate was a protective amulet. The small format suggest that it may have been sewn into a garment. Grave find, Ulvsunda, Bromma Parish, Uppland.

Image rights: Ola Myrin, Historiska museet/SHM (CC BY 4.0)

Object number: 840377_HST

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