Although the stone has been known since the initial surveys of runestones in Sweden during the 1600s, it exact original location is not known. The runestone is 2.46 meters in height and made of granite. It is considered to be fragile. To protect the stone and its shallow inscription, it was moved in 1948 from Möjbro to the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities.
Drawing
The Möjbro Runestone is notable not only for being one of few runestones in Proto-Norse, but also for showing what is considered to be an artistically crafted image of a rider on a horse with two dogs. It is believed to have been inspired by continental Germanic images of victorious warriors on horses and that it ultimately derives from the motifs of horsemen common on :commons:Category:Ancient Roman funerary steles in Germany|tombstones of members of the Roman cavalry in late Roman Empire era art.
Inscription
The inscription is to be read from right to left, and from bottom to top. It transliterates as Several interpretations have been put forth for the inscription, but the only thing that can be said with certainty on the interpretation of the inscription is that Frawaradaz is the name of a man. The most common view is that the final part of the inscription is to be read as slaginaz "slain", indicating that the stone is a memorial and that it says that Frawaradaz was slain. Hempl, by contrast, read langiniz, reading the letter transliterated above as a bind rune for ng. The middle part of the inscription, reading anahahai or similar, has given rise to a wide variety of tentative interpretations, most of them assuming that it gives additional information on the person of Frawaradaz or on the circumstances of his death, including "Āna, the one-eyed", "the noble", "on the racer"/"on his steed/horse", "of Hagho", "in Hagho". Grønvik gives an alternative interpretation inasmuch as he has the slaginazrefer to the horse, not the dead man, reading "Frawarādaz - Over the horse was slaughtered." Elmevik interprets the final word as laikīnaz, preceded by the copula is: Frawarādaz ainahāhǣ is laikinaz. The ainahāhǣ is interpreted as "the only high one", and the is laikinaz either as "is eager to fight" or "is killed intentionally" or "is killed by witchcraft". Krause segments the top line of text into "ana hahai slaginaz." "Hahai" here is interpreted as "hanhē," indicating both the occurrence in speech of the aspirant h preceded by a vowel and a nasal to be realised as nasalised vowel and the development of the Proto-Germanic dative ending from /-ai/ to /-ē/ over time. This second indication would suggest that the spelling on the Möjbro Runestone is an inherited, archaicised spelling from earlier Proto-Germanic.The inscription is thus interpreted to mean "on steed slain."
