Abstract
AbstractThe Tune runestone preserves one of the most important older runic inscriptions. Yet two main interpretations have been proposed for the text on side B of the early Norwegian memorial. The more recent interpretation relies on the existence of a Proto-Germanic fabricatory verb *dālijanąthat is not attested otherwise. Side B also features a superlative adjective featuring the ending-jōstēzwhose root has equally been the subject of a range of unlikely proposals. The early runic verbdalidunis most plausibly taken as reflecting a loan of *dāl-, the Celtic reflection of the Indo-European verbal root *deh1(i̯)- ‘to divide’, while the superlative appears to be most obviously comparable to Gothicsinistans‘elders’.
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