Knowledge of runic writing reached the Nordic countries, as early as the 3rd century A.D. After 400 A.D. it began to be used for inscriptions on stones. The stone was usually put up to commemorate a dead person or some great deed.

This unique writing with runes contains references to several heroic poems and legends, which are now lost to us, from the 9th century and that is why most of it is inaccessible to us. One stanza in the middle of the context is carved in exactly the same metre as the poetic Edda

The inscription reads:
-At the time Tjodrik the brave, Cheieftain of the warriors at sea, ruled the shore of the sea of Reid. Now he is on horseback armed, on his gothic horse, with shield on his shoulder, the most important of märingar.