A map from the publication Topografisk-statistisk Beskrivelse over Kristians Amt (1917) showing Jotunheimen National Park, named after the giants in Norse mythology.
Illustration 'Freya and the Dwarves ' by Harry George Theaker from Children's Stories from the Northern Legends by M. Dorothy Belgrave and H. Hart (London, 1920)
Jelling Stone 2b from Jelling (Denmark).
Transliterated runic text
Sides or/and reading variants:
§ A : haraltr : kunukR : baþ : kaurua ¶ kubl : þausi : aft : kurm faþur sin ¶ auk aft : þourui : muþur : sina : sa ¶ haraltr (:) ias : soR · uan · tanmaurk
§ B ala · auk · nuruiak
§ C (·) auk t(a)ni (k)(a)(r)(þ)(i) kristno
Translation to English
Sides or/and reading variants:
§ A King Haraldr ordered these monuments made in memory of Gormr, his father, and in memory of Þyrvé, his mother; that Haraldr who won for himself all of Denmark
§ B and Norway
§ C and made the Danes Christian.
Runic Inscription on the Piraeus Lion from Piraeus (Greece)
Rune text transliteration:
Sides or/and reading variants:
§ A ... : (h)(i)(a)(k)(u) þ(i)(r) (h)(i)lfniks (m)i(n) -----... ¶ ... (e)(n) i hafn þesi þir (m)(i)(n) i-ku runar at (h)a(u)-sa buta -...(h)(u)(a)-... ¶ ... --þ^u s^uiar þ(e)ta| |a l^einu ¶ ... f...- aþr gailt^ ^uan kear(u)-
§ B tr(i)ki(r) ÷ ris(t) r(u)(n)(i)(r) ...
§ C (:) a(s)(m)un(t)r × ri(s)(t)(i) (×) ... ...(n)(a)r þisar × þair × is(k)-... ... (þ)(u)(r)l(i)f(r) ---- auk × - (×) -...-o-...---(t)-... ¶ -ufru(k)...r...(s)--...--...uanf(a)(r)(n) ×
English translation:
Sides or/and reading variants:
§ A ... they cut(?), the troops men ... but in this harbour the men cut runes in memory of Haursi, a ... vigorous(?) husbandman ... Swedes arranged(?) this on the lion ... He fell(?)/perished(?) before he could gain payment.
§ B Valiant men carved the runes ...
§ C Ásmundr carved ... the runes, they Áskell(?) ... Þorleifr(?) ... and ...
Halfdan Runic Inscription from the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque Hagia Sophia (Turkey).
Runes:
(ᚼ/ᛆ)ᛚᚠᛐᛆᚿ …
Rune text transliteration:
alftan/hlftan …
English translation:
Halfdan …
