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Stone with runic inscription
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from Brough of Birsay, Orkney
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This stone carved with Norse runes was found reused in a dry-stone dyke on the Brough of Birsay in Orkney. The runes were carved sometime between 1000 and 1200.
The stone was carved with three inscriptions, two of which are too faint to read. The third is incomplete, and has been reconstructed as 'filibusranru', perhaps meaning 'Philipus [carved these] runes'.
The Vikings colonised the Northern Isles - Orkney and Shetland - from around 800. Birsay was an important Pictish settlement, and continued to be a Scandinavian one, with some degree of overlap. The Scandinavians brought their runic form of writing.
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- Online ID: 000-100-043-499-C
- Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
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National Museums Scotland
Project description View all records in project - Ref: National Museums Scotland X.IB 191
- Date: Between 1000 and 1200
- Material: Stone; inscribed with runes
Stone - Dimensions: 1230 mm H x 160 mm L x 100 mm W
- What: Stone
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- Where: Scotland, Orkney, Brough of Birsay
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- Description: Stone inscribed with runes, from Birsay
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