DR 110, or the Virring stone, is a

runestone A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic alphabet, runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock. The tradition of erecting runestones as a memorial to dead men began in the 4th centur ...

made of

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

that measures in height, in width and in thickness. It is written in

Old East Norse Old East Norse was a dialect of Old Norse which evolved into the languages of Old Danish and Old Swedish from the 9th century to the 12th century. Between 800 and 1100, East Norse is in Sweden called '' Runic Swedish'' and in Denmark ''Runic ...

in the Younger Futhark, and the runestone style is in a form called RAK. It was discovered in 1865 being used as the threshold for the church porch in the church of Virring in Denmark.Danske Runeindskrifter
- entry for Virring-sten. It is tentatively dated to the period 900-960 based on the runes and the language. It had been severely worn down so many runes are missing. A peculiarity in the inscription is the m rune which has a rounded top( M-rune variant

). It also contains an invocation to the Norse god

Thor Thor (from ) is a prominent list of thunder gods, god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred g ...

(''Þor wigi þæssi kumbl''), which it shares with a number of other runestones in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

and

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

: the

Rök runestone The Rök runestone (; Rundata, Ög 136) is one of the most famous runestones, featuring the longest known runic alphabet, runic inscription in stone. It can now be seen beside the church in Rök, Ödeshög Municipality, Östergötland, Sweden. I ...

(''Þōrr''), the

Velanda Runestone The Velanda Runestone (), designated as Vg 150 in the Rundata catalog, is a runestone dated to the late tenth century or the early eleventh century that is located in the village of Velanda, Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County, S ...

(''Þorr vigi''),

Glavendrup stone The Glavendrup stone, designated as DR 209 by Rundata, is a runestone on the island of Funen in Denmark and dates from the early 10th century. It contains Denmark's longest runic inscription and ends in a curse. Description The runestone forms ...

(''Þor wigi þæssi runaʀ''),

Sønder Kirkeby Runestone The Sønder Kirkeby Runestone, listed as runic inscription DR 220 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone that was discovered in Sønder Kirkeby, which is located about 5 kilometers east of Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. Descriptio ...

(''Þor wigi runaʀ'') and possibly Sö 140 (''Siði(?) Þorr(?)'').

Inscription

Below follows a presentation of the runestones based on the

Rundata The Scandinavian Runic-text Database () is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of transliterated runic inscriptions. The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way for future resea ...

project. The transcriptions into Old Norse are in the Swedish and Danish dialect to facilitate comparison with the inscriptions, while the English translation provided by

gives the names in the de facto standard dialect (the Icelandic and Norwegian dialect):Project Samnordisk Runtextdatabas Svensk
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entry for Sö 111.

Sources

Virring-sten at Danske Runeindskrifter
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References

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