The stone is Шаблон:Convert high and Шаблон:Convert wide. It is inscribed on both sides, and decorated with semicircles inside the text band and a "U" shape above the text on the front. It is dated to between 970 and 1020.First described by J. Meier in 1654, it was lying face-down in the churchyard; in 1838 Шаблон:Ill examined it and discovered the inscription on the front. In the 1920s it was re-erected on a mound west of the south transept.[1][2][3] It is believed to have originally stood north-east of the church, probably as part of a memorial assemblage comparable to the Jelling stones.[3]
The inscription, in Younger Fuþark runes Шаблон:Convert high, is read in boustrophedon, initially from left to right on the front and continuing from the front lower right to the back lower left and from the back lower right to the middle text band, which is read from bottom to top and ends in a point. The inscription on the back includes alliteration that may be formulaic.[1]
Inscription
Transliteration of runes
Front: ąsur : sati : stin : þąnsi : aft : ual:tuka : trutin : | : sin
Back: stin : kuask : hirsi : stąnta : ląki : saR : ual:tuka : | : uarþa : nafni
Transcription into Old Norse
Front: Assurr satti stēn þannsi æft Val-Tōka, drōttin sinn.
Back: Stēnn kvæðsk hērsi standa længi, sāR Val-Tōka varða næfni.
Translation into English
Front: Ǫzurr placed this stone in memory of Valtóki, his lord.
Back: The stone proclaims that it will long stand here; it will name Valtóki's cairn.[1]
