The Snoldelev Stone was first noted in 1810 and was turned over to the national Antiquities Commission in 1811. The runestone is now housed at the
National Museum of Denmark in
Copenhagen, Denmark. It is in height. The stone is decorated with painted scratches depicting a design of three horns, possibly
drinking horns, interlaced into a triangle as incomplete
Borromean rings (similar to the
Diane de Poitiers three crescents emblem). The inscription on the Snoldelev Stone shows an early version of the
Younger Futhark. Like the late
Elder Futhark Björketorp Runestone, it uses an a-rune which has the same form as the h-rune has in the long-branch version of the younger futhark. This a-rune is transliterated with a capital
A below. The Snoldelev runestone also retains the elder futhark
haglaz rune () for the h-phoneme The text is arranged in two lines of different sizes. It has been suggested that this may have been done in imitation of
Merovingian or
Carolingian manuscripts, which have the first line in long slender characters with the following lines in shorter, stubbier text. The literal translation of the Old Norse
Salhøgum combines
sal "hall" with
hörgar "mounds," to form "on the hall mounds," suggesting a place with a room where official meetings took place. ==Inscription==