projectfear22

Hi, today I was google-ing the vikings and found someone interesting that is not much written about him so I'm curious for his history but I was trying and trying to find more info and I can't I found this forum while I was searching and I guess I'll try my chances here now

Who is the viking known as "Ali" is there any information about him that is not on the wiki? Can someone please help me find more info about him?



This is what is written on the wiki about him:
U 194


U 194.


This secluded runestone is located in a grove near Väsby, , . It was raised by a Viking in commemoration of his receiving one danegeld in England. It is classified as being carved in Pr3 and, together with U 344, it has been said to be the earliest example of an inscription in Uppland.[5] The runic text follows a common rule to only carve a single rune for two consecutive letters, even when the letters were at the end of one word and the beginning of a second word.[6] When the text shown as Latin characters, the transliterated runes are doubled and separate words are shown. For U 194 has three examples where this occurred, þinoftiR is transliterated as þino| |oftiR, tuknuts as tuk| |knuts, and anklanti as a| |anklanti.

Latin transliteration:
al|i| |l|it raisa stain þino| |oftiR sik sialfan ' hon tuk| |knuts kialt a| |anklanti ' kuþ hialbi hons ant

Old Norse transcription:
Ali/Alli let ræisa stæin þenna æftiR sik sialfan. Hann tok Knuts giald a Ænglandi. Guð hialpi hans and.

English translation:
"Áli/Alli had this stone raised in memory of himself. He took Knútr's payment in England. May God help his spirit."

starkodder

Hi, I don't think we know a lot about Ali. But the name is not uncommon. Appearently, he was a warrior in the service of the Danish king Knut the Great, who later also ruled England. So Ali must have lived in the first half of the 1000s.

Larrey

The form of the name in the inscription is apparently "al[i]" with the "i" missing but inferred. It's then transcribed as "Alli", which corresponds to somewhat modern modern Swedish forms of "Alle" or "Ale".

fivebyfive.be: Samnordisk Runtextdatabas - "U 194"

But no, it's overshelmingly unlikely there's going to be any more information about this individual, who apprently accompanied king Knut of Denmark, Canute the Great, to England.

projectfear22

okay thanks to both of you I got soooo interrested in him but if there is no info than I gotta get over it :/

starkodder

Why are you so interested in Ali in particular?

projectfear22

Don't know xD got interested in him since there is very little information about him but he still did exist... :/ damn why didn't learn about archeology as a kid lol with 16 years learning to be a freaking sales man (and I hate the job) pff ..

starkodder

Some of the forerunners of the vikings, such as goths, heruli and langobards traveled through Croatia during the Migration period. Perhaps you can find traces of them back home? But that's another topic...

okamido

Is anyone familiar with this design? I haven't seen that type of guard in a "Viking" age sword before.

Gudenrath

Seems to be based on this one:



But as the decription discloses it is quite unusual. According to the finds the average Viking Age sword would have looked something like this:

okamido

So as far as we know, it may be a one of a kind design?

Thanks for the respond, also.