Runestone from Fåberg

Fåbergstein (2013)

The runestone from Fåberg (N 59) called Fåbergstein or in Norwegian Fåbergsteinen or also called Fåvang, is at the Fåberg kirke in Fåberg near Lillehammer in the Fylke Innlandet in Norway . The rune stone is probably a building stone from the late Iron Age , which was provided with runes at the end of the Viking Age around 1000 AD. The almost cylindrical stone is about three meters high and eight to thirty centimeters thick.

The clockwise inscription in the younger Futhark shows short branch runes , the s rune being incised in a dotted variant ᛍ with a circular end. This particular form of the s-rune also appears in Norwegian inscriptions in the inscriptions of Klepp I, Vang and Søgne.

• × ᚱᚢᛆᚱ ᛬ ᚱᛆᛁᛍᛐᛁ ᛬ ᛍᛐᛆᛁᚿ ᛬ ᚦ (ᚮ) ᚿ (ᚭ) ᛬ (ᛆ) (ᚠ) (ᛐ) ᛁᚱ ᛬ ᛆ (ᛚ) (ᚢ) ᛁ ᛬ ᚠᛆᚦᚢᚱ ᛬ ᛍᛁᚿ
• × ruar: raisti: stain: þ (a) n (o): (a) (f) (t) ir: a (l) (u) i: faþur: sin
• "Hróarr travels stone þenna eptir Ôlvi, fôður sinn."
• "Hróarr erects this stone after Olve, his father."

In 1775 three menhirs were found, of which only this remained a few years later. The broken stone was reassembled to its original size. The upper part was found in a ditch next to the church in 1879. The stone, which has been moved several times, was temporarily in a park in the city of Lillehammer. In 1928 it returned to its original place next to the cemetery.

A legend tells of a troll in a nearby mountain who wanted to throw the stone at Fåberg Church but missed it. The Fåbergstein was registered as a monument by the highest Norwegian monument protection authority Riksantikvaren and placed under protection.

literature

• Magnus Olsen: Norges innskrifter med de yngre runer. Bind I: Østfold, Akershus, Oslo, Hedmark, Oppland. Undseth, Oslo 1951, p. 132.
• Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon. 5th, revised. Edition. Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Uppsala 2007, ISBN 978-91-7229-040-2 , pp. 21, 118–119.

Web links

• Entry of the runestone from Fåberg in the online database of the Norwegian Monument Protection Agency (Norwegian)
• Description and pictures on megalithic.co.uk

Remarks

1. ↑ Magnus Olsen: Norges innskrifter med de yngre runer. P. 123; Klaus Düwel : Runic lore. 4th edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, p. 93.
2. ↑ Thomas Birkmann : From Ågedal to Malt. The Scandinavian runic inscriptions from the end of the 5th to the end of the 9th century. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes . Volume 12). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014510-3 , p. 32, fn. 28.

Coordinates: 61 ° 9 ′ 36.4 ″  N , 10 ° 22 ′ 30.3 ″  E