Runestone from Snoldelev
The rune stone by Snoldelev traces the development from building stone , via picture stone to rune stone . The inscription dates from the Viking Age around 800–900 AD. The rune stone is in the National Museum in Copenhagen .
Snoldelev belongs to the municipality of Ramsø and is located south of Roskilde on Zealand in Denmark .
As a monument, the stone is considerably older than the Viking era. It was probably set up as early as the younger Iron Age (around 0–500 AD). At the bottom there is a wheel cross , a symbol that can also be found on the stone of Grebbestad . A left-hand swastika has been struck over the wheel symbol in a poor quality version.
Underneath, in a later phase, an extremely accurately crafted triskele , here three intertwined horns, is shown, which seems to have originated at the same time as the runic inscription in the younger Futhark . It is:
- "Gunvaldr, the son of Hróald, of þulr (þular) á Salhaugar".
The þulr had a cultic-ritual rank and designated a cult speaker. “Salhaugar” is possibly a burial mound on which Hróald's throne was located, the þular-stóll, from which the þulr made his speeches.
literature
- Th. Birkmann: From Ågedal to Malt - The Scandinavian runic inscriptions from the end of the 5th to the end of the 9th century. 1995, ISBN 3-11-014510-3
Web links
- Elena A. Gurevich: On the genealogy of the þula. In: Alvíssmál 1 (1992), pp. 65–98, here p. 66. (PDF file; 139 kB)
Coordinates: 55 ° 34 ′ 17.9 ″ N , 12 ° 7 ′ 16.6 ″ E