Apelbodasten
The Apelbodasten (Nä 29) is a rune stone that stands on a ridge 150 meters south of Apelboda gård in Glanshammar in the municipality of Örebro in Närke in Sweden . The black granite stone is on the old Eriksgatan .
The stone was inscribed in the middle or second half of the 11th century. It was found in 1885 by a farmer who was looking for stones to build a new barn. Since the stone was face down, he did not see the inscription, but smashed the stone into three parts. When he discovered the runes, he reported the find. The first to scientifically describe the stone was Nils Gabriel Djurklou (1828–1904), who examined the stone in the same year. The stone was later put together with staples and cement and placed at the site of the find. The runes are very clear. There are five small knotted snakes within the labeled serpentine ribbon, which is tied at the bottom with an Irish belt . The decoration is not detailed, but there are similarities with the serpent's head on the runestone of Nasta (Nä 34) and with Nä 26 in the church of Glanshammar .
The stone is 2.15 meters high. The mostly well-preserved runes are in a band on the edge of the stone. The text says:
The end line can (according to Sven Birger Fredrik Jansson) also be read as: "... he had beaten himself as a man". The term “fultrekila” is a so-called Hapax word that only occurs in certain places. In this case, this applies to runic inscriptions. But it is also known from Icelandic poetry.
The unknown rune master used a mixture of normal and short runes, with the spelling of a and n changing in particular.
The name Bofriðr is not found on any other rune stone. Nor is it documented in medieval sources and must have been unusual. Unfortunately, the stone says nothing about where Björn went.
- Apelbodasten
Nearby are the Glanshammar burial ground and the Skävesund burial ground .
literature
- Sven BF Jansson: Närkes runinskrifter (= Sveriges runinskrifter Volume 14.1) Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1975, ISBN 91-7192-204-0 , pp. 94-100. ( online )
Web links
- Apelbodasten - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description and pictures (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 21 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 15 ° 23 ′ 54.9 ″ E