File:Thurmuth Rune Sword Inscription.jpg

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English: Detail of a runic inscription on a Viking sword found in a barrow in Sæbø, Hoprekstad, Norway in 1825. The inscription reads right-to-left "Oh Þurmuþ" (Thurmuth owns me), with a swastika representing the syllable Thur (for Thor).
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Source Scanned from "Handbook of the Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandanavia and England" (London, 1884) page 242
Author George Stephens (1813-1895)
Other versions File:Saebo sword blade inscription.jpg (photograph of current state)

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