Picture stone from Sjellebro

The picture stone from Sjellebro (DR 1985: 539) is a mask stone from the Viking Age (around 850 to around 1050) in Sjellebro near Randers in Denmark . The granite stone is about 1.7 meters high and has a large face on one side. The meaning is unclear. The stone has no inscription .

It was found in 1951 at a ford across the Alling Å .

Sjellebro legend

This troll stone is said to be the seat of Aquarius , who demanded a human sacrifice at this point every year . However, once it was six years before a person drowned. For six years the cry rang out: "The time has come, but the man has not come!" In the seventh year a car drove through the river and all seven inmates were killed.

literature

Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 155
Peter Vilhelm Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968, pp. 205, 233
Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 116

Web links

Commons : Bildstein von Sjellebro - collection of images, videos and audio files

Sjellebro billedstenen from Nordisk Forskningsinstitut

Remarks

↑ The path to the ford has been excavated. There were four streets laid one on top of the other. The bottom two were probably the older and paved. The upper ones were connected to a wooden bridge.

56.404167 10.240833Coordinates: 56 ° 24 ′ 15 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 27 ″ E

[1] The path to the ford has been excavated. There were four streets laid one on top of the other. The bottom two were probably the older and paved. The upper ones were connected to a wooden bridge.