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Kylver Stone
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The Kylver stone is a rune stone whose official name is G 88. It dates from about 400 A.D. and was found on a farm at Kylver, Stånga, Gotland in 1903. The stone was a flat rock used to seal a grave and the inscription was written on the underside, and could therefore not be read from above.
The stone is inscribed with the earliest known sequential listing of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark,
- [ᚠ] ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ ᚷ [ᚹ] ᚺ ᚾ ᛁ ᛃ ᛇ ᛈ ᛉ ᛊ ᛏ ᛒ ᛖ ᛗ ᛚ ᛜ ᛞ ᛟ
- [f] u þ a r k g [w] h n i j ï p z s t b e m l ŋ d o,
with the a, s and b runes mirrored compared to later use, and the z rune upside down. After the last rune follows a spruce- or tree-like rune commonly believed to be a modified Tiwaz rune with eight heads (a similar rune with three heads is found on the Seeland-II-C bracteate). At a separate space the word ᛋᚢᛚᛁᚢᛋ sulius is inscribed. The meaning of this latter word is unknown, but is assumed to be associated with magic. (Also note that the small inscription uses the younger futhark version of the s-rune.)
The Kylver stone was removed from Gotland and brought to the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm where it is not currently on display.
- Rundata
- Vadstena bracteate — Another early futhark inscription.
