Gislest
The Gislesten (also Aspösten) or rune block from Aspö - with the RAÄ no. Sö 175 or Aspö 47: 1 - is a rune block from the 11th century near a Lagnö (old Swedish landing place for larger ships) in Södermanland in Sweden .
The Gislestein was discovered by the then owner of the Lagnös, Court Marshal Bagge, during a hunt in the 17th century. The early identification as Gislestein shows that it was runes who, shortly after the discovery of the stone, interpreted the first runes as the male name Gisle.
The ornament is interesting. A mustache, legs apart, standing naked man in a pointy cap stands between two snakes. Some researchers have shown similarities with a small bronze statuette of the fertility god Freyr and a representation from a church in Italy, which can be seen in the Museo Civico di Pavia . The text reads: Gislög had this incision made after Tord; Slide had done this too. It is true as it was said and as it was intended (determined).
The incision, ascribed to the rune master Balle, is about two meters high and one and a half meters wide and is vertical, which is rare on rune blocks. Today the distance to the ground is about two meters. However, the conditions have changed due to the uplift of the land, previously a water surface should have reached up to the stone.
literature
- Erik Brate, Elias Wessén: Sveriges runinskrifter: III. Södermanlands runinskrifter. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies, Stockholm 1924–1936, ISSN 0562-8016, pp. 137–144 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Gislestenen - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description Swedish and picture
- Reference literature
Coordinates: 59 ° 28 '38 " N , 17 ° 2' 57.9" E