Östergötland Runic Inscription 43
Östergötland Runic Inscription 43 or Ög 43 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age runic inscription carved on a rockface in Ingelstad, just north of Norrköping, Östergötland, Sweden. Description Ög 43 is carved on a granite rockface consisting of two lines of text within runic text bars that are approximately 0.4 meters in length. Above it is carved a sword, and a cross and Nordic sun symbol are also carved nearby. The runic text is in the younger futhark except for the first rune in the second line, which uses the form of the d-rune, , from the elder futhark. p. 451. The Rök runestone, dated to this same period, also mixes runes from both futharks in its inscription. Because of this, it has been dated to approximately 850 C.E. The association of the carving of a sun with the word ''sól'' along with the use of an anachronistic d-rune may suggest it is a ritualistic comparison of the dim winter sun and the bright summer sun, and represents a runic magic call for ...
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