Gotland Runic Inscription 207
# Gotland Runic Inscription 207

The Gotland Runic Inscription 207 is a Viking Age runestone engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark runic alphabet. It is from c. 1100 and is located behind the organ in the tower room of Stenkumla Church on Gotland. It is raised in memory of a man who had been south with his comrades selling pelts, but he was killed in Ulvshale on the Danish island of Møn.

## Inscription

Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters

    butmuntr : auk : butraifʀ : auk : kunu[ar : þaiʀ : raistu : stain ...arþi : karþ] : auk : sunarla : sat : miþ : skinum : auk : han : entaþis : at : ulfshala : þa : [¶ han : hil(k)(i)...]

Old Norse transcription:

    Botmundr ok Botræifʀ ok Gunnvarr þæiʀ ræistu stæin ... garð ok sunnarla sat með skinnum. Ok hann ændaðis at Ulfshala/Ulvshale ... ... ...

English translation:

    "Bótmundr and Bótreifr and Gunnvarr, they raised the stone ... farm and sat in the south with the skins (= traded fur). And he met his end at Ulfshala/Ulvshale ..."
