The rune expert, professor Carl Marstrander, interpreted the inscription and dated it to around year 400, or the first part of 500 A.D. Translated into words closer to our understanding, the text reads: “eg Wagigar, agilamundu sin irilar”.
The one speaking is called WAGIGAR. He calls himself “irilar” a word we know from several other runic inscriptions. It is thought that it means “rune expert”- someone who knows runes. Wagigar served with Agilamunda – a woman – and was her “irilar”. She was clearly of higher birth than him, even though he mastered the art of rune carving.
The stone is probably from a grave in the vicinity, and was regarded as suitable building material when the barn wall was erected at the end of the 1820s. The builders had no idea that the stone gave the names of two of those who lived in the area one and a half thousand years ago.
Today the Rosseland stone is in Bergen museum.