Runes in Maes Howe
That's what the text says on the upper photo.... And the runic text on the picture below :
§B Many a wife has travelled stooping in here. A great show-off.
§C Erlingr
That is a viking/Víkingr ...then came here underneath.
Eyjúlfr Kolbeinn's son carved these runes high.
Þórir <fómir>
Vémundr carved.
fuþork hnias tbynu
Óttarr <fila> carved these runes.
§A ...is said to me that wealth is concealed well enough here. Few say as Oddr §B Orki's(?) son said in those runes which he carved.
§A Þorny fucked. §B Helgi carved.
<a-isris> (...carved?)
Ôgmundr carved ...
Ormr the <yri> carved.
Jerusalem men (crusaders) broke this mound.
... carved these runes.
§A Arnfinnr, Steinn's son, carved these runes.
Arnfinnr Food carved these runes.
§A Hermundr Hard-<eksi> carved §B runes.
§A That man who is most rune-skilled west of the sea carved these runes §D with that axe which Gaukr Trandill's son owned in the south of the country (= Iceland).
Ingigerðr is the most beautiful woman(?)
Benedikt made this cross.
§A This mound was constructed before Loðbrók's. Her sons, §B they were daring; such were men as they were of themselves (=they were the sort of people you would really call men).
§A Jerusalem-travellers broke Orkhaugr. Hlíf, the earl's houskeeper, §B carved.
In the north-west is great wealth concealed.
It was long ago that great wealth was concealed here.
Fortunate is he who can find the great riches.
Hákon alone carried wealth out of this mound.
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