Tune Rune Stone
The oldest known Norwegian runestone, found in pieces at Tune in Østfold and dated to around 400 CE. Its short inscription in the early runic alphabet records how heirs divided a man's estate and is among the earliest attestations of a Germanic language. The archaic word forms make it a key document for scholars of early Norse language and runic writing. Cut from red granite in the shape of a rough pyramid about two meters high, the stone stood at a farm before being set into the floor of a church doorway, where it was rediscovered in the 19th century. Its inscription in Proto-Norse, 'ek wiwaz