Bergakker inscription

It was found in 1996 in the Dutch town of Bergakker, in the Betuwe, a region once inhabited by the Batavi.

Runic writing at the time was used along the North Sea coast, in Frisia, but there are very few other extant inscriptions from Francia.

)þ(V)**s : ann : k(V)sjam :᛬:ᛚᛟᚷ[V]ᚾᛋlog(V)ns᛬:᛬ ᛚᛟᚷ[V]ᚾᛋ ᛬: log(V)ns :where V is a non-standard rune, apparently a vowel (variously read as e or u, or as "any vowel"), and * represents an unknown rune.

There seems to be a consensus that the ann is the past tense of unnan, corresponding to Modern Dutch gunnen, which means "give/bestow/grant".

The third word is read either as kusjam, meaning "chooser" or "chosen", corresponding to Modern Dutch keuze, or as ke(i)sjam meaning "cut" or "cutter", also referring to swords or sword wielders.