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Mejlbystenen

Denmark

The Mejlbystenen, also known as runic inscription DR 117 from its Rundata catalog listing, is an approximately 1,000-year-old runestone originally located at Mejlby, near Randers in Denmark. According to a new interactive exhibit of the stone at the Randers Kulturhistoriske Museum, which differs slightly from the accepted Rundata translation, the stone reads: Åne erected this stone for his son Eskil who found death with Thore in Øresund The inscription has been classified as being carved in runestone style RAK.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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