Asmildstein
The Asmildstein (MJy 28) is a scribed 970-1020 Runenstein of granite extending in Karnhaus the church in Asmild in the Viborg Municipality in Jutland in Denmark is located.
The stone was found in 1950 in connection with archaeological excavations that should provide information about the complicated building history of the monastery church. The stone was found in the wall of the church's north tower, believed to have been built around 1150 and later demolished. When the stone was reused in the foundation a cut was made both at the top and at the bottom which damaged the center rune on the front as well as some runes on the top of the narrow side. The 1.18 m long, 66 cm wide and 30 cm thick stone lay with the runes down on the north door of the church.
The text reads: Thorgun (d), daughter of Thorgot, the son of Thjodulv, placed this stone after her husband Bose, the husband of Tidender's <muaR> H… daughter.
It is controversial what the term tidenders includes. It is possible that it was a transmission of messages. The rune height is between 4.0 and 17.0 cm. Colons were used as separators. The lettering was done in parallel in a framed field on the A-side with a long center line and two shorter side lines. It is read starting from the bottom left, with an addition on one of the narrow sides.
The author and historian Palle Lauring (1909–1996) believed that it was possible to take a look at the Thrugotsen family, who held a prominent position in Jutland in the 1000s. To her belonged, among others, Erik I. Ejegod's wife Bodil Thrugotsdatter (1065-1103) ( Knud Lavard comes from this marriage ), Archbishop Asser (died 1137) and the historian Svend Aggesen (died after 1186).
literature
- Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 131.
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 95.
- Erik Moltke : Runes and their Origin, Denmark and Elsewhere, pp. 306-308. København 1985.
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Coordinates: 56 ° 26 ′ 49 ″ N , 9 ° 25 ′ 30 ″ E