The Kylver stone

A rune row from fifth-century Gotland.

The Kylver stone preserves a full early rune row. It is evidence for the writing system rather than a sentence. Individual shapes and ordering differ from the standardized teaching row in this app.

The Kylver stone

Gunnar Creutz. CC BY-SA 3.0. Image unchanged. Original photo. License.

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A normalized teaching row. Compare the object photograph before treating it as a facsimile.

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