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:
The inscription has been classified as being carved in runestone style RAK.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
oni : risþ : stin : þansi : aft : oöskl : sun : sin : ias : tauþr ö uarþ : maþ : þuri : i : ura:ö:suti :
Transcription into Old Norse
ÃÂni reisti stein þenna ept ÃÂskel, son sinn, er dauðr varð með ÃÂóri àEyrasundi.
Translation in English
ÃÂni raised this stone in memory of ÃÂskell, his son, who died with ÃÂórir in The Sound.
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