The spear shaft was found in 1877 during the excavation of the classic war booty sacrificial site Kragehul on southern Funen.
The Elder Futhark inscription reads: The first part is normalized as: Interpreted as "I, the erilaz of Āsugīsalaz, am called Muha, ga-ga-ga!
[citation needed] Āsugīsalaz is a Germanic compound name, consisting of ansu-, "god", and gīsalaz, "hostage".
The runes of gagaga are displayed as a row of three bindrunes based on the X-shape of the g-rune with sidetwigs attached to its extremities for the a.
and the remaining as Düwel (1983) reads the thrice repeated g-a as g[ibu] a[uja] "I give good fortune".