Danish Runic Inscription 380

The Nylarsker stone 2, Ny Larsker stone I or DR 380 is a Viking Age runestone engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark runic alphabet on Bornholm. The runestone was discovered in 1643 and first mentioned in Ole Worm's Monumenta Danica.^[1] It was to be found outside the entrance of Nylars Church until 1855.^[1] It is securely dated to the period 1075–1125, and belongs to a group of Bornholm runestones that were made during the transition from the Viking Age to the Nordic Middle Ages.^[1] It made in sandstone and it is 186 cm tall, 146,5 cm wide and 17 cm thick,^[1] and the style of the runestone is the runestone style RAK.^[2]

The inscription is partly made in the Old Norse fornyrðislag meter (cf. Nielsen 1983:224-25) and consists of a traveller's or a soul formula.^[1] It possible that "Sveinn of the hooded cloak" was a descendant of the Jomsviking Sigurd of the hooded cloak who is said to have settled on Bornholm after the battle of Hjørungavåg ca. 986.^[1]

The language shows linguistic changes in "raisti" where there is a transition from sþ to st. The old ʀ-phoneme has merged with the r-phoneme as in "a(f)tir".^[1] The form "kobu" probably reflects a late u umlaut, and the form Mikial (Michael) has palatalization with parallels in West Norse and in Old Swedish (Brøndum Nielsen GG § 247).^[1] The ansuz rune is of a special form.^[1]