Holmby Runestone

The Holmby Runestone has an inscription that consists of runic text that is upside down in an arch that is over a depiction of a ship at sea.

Before the historic nature of runestones was understood, they were often reused as construction materials for roads, bridges, and buildings.

This classification is for inscriptions where the ends of the runic bands are straight and there are no attached serpent or beast heads.

[2] The runic text states that the stone was raised as a memorial by a man named Sveinn to his father Þorgeirr.

The last words of the Old Norse text, faþur sin ("his father"), are carved below the image of the ship at sea.