Sandavágur stone

Sandavágur stone
Rundata ID	FR 2 M
Country	Faroe Islands
City/Village	Sandavágur
Produced	13th century
Text – Native
Old Norse: Þorkell Ǫnundar sonr, austmaðr af Rogalandi, bygði þenna stað fyrst.
Text – English
Þorkell Ǫnundr's son, man of the east from Rogaland, lived in this place first.
Other resources
Runestones – Runic alphabet Runology – Runestone styles

The Sandavágur stone (FR 2 M) is a runestone that was discovered in the town of Sandavágur on the Faroe Islands in 1917.^[1] The stone can today be seen in the Sandavágur Church.

The inscription speaks of Þorkell, a man from Rogaland, Norway who claims to have lived on that place first. He is presumably one of the first settlers, if not the very first one, in the Sandavágur area. In both runes and language the Sandavágur stone corresponds to what is known from Rogaland around the 13th century.^[2]

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