thorraborinn:Eggja RunesThe Eggja Stone, found in Sogndal, Norway by farmer Nils Eggum, is an extrem
thorraborinn:Eggja RunesThe Eggja Stone, found in Sogndal, Norway by farmer Nils Eggum, is an extremely late Elder Futhark inscription. Though the runes are clearly of the Elder variety, the language is much closer to the Old Norse of the Viking Age than any other Elder inscription with a significant amount of text, even including the “transitional” Björketorp and Stentoften runestones.There is huge variation in interpretations of what the stone says, some interpretations can be read here: (line 1) (line 2) (line 3).In the above graphic, sound values are inferred from interpretations of the inscriptions; grayed out sounds are found in some interpretations, but not others, or are otherwise expected components of the language given its earlier and later forms, but do not occur on the stone.Some notable aspects of the orthography are that runes are occasionally doubled in the inscription, contrary to usual practice, such as in the word skorinn skorinn ‘cut’, and does sometimes drop the n rune before consonants made at the same place of articulation, such as in land lat and swimmandi suemade, but not always, as in galandi galąndi — but of course this is only according to some readings, and is far from certain.Eggjarúnar would be a doubly relevant name for this set of runes; it is not only named for the farm on which they were found (Eggja, Old Norse Eggjar), but is also Old Norse for “edge-runes”, a fitting name for runes that come at the very end of the Elder period and at the beginning of what might arguably be called Old Norse.An image of the stone can be found courtesy of Arild Hauges Runer here: (link)Read more about the stone in Terje Spurkland’s Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions (Google Books Preview link). -- source link