Bjolderup's grave slab
The grave slab of Bjolderup (also Bjolderup stone) is a stone coffin lid from the post -Viking era around 1200 AD. It bears a grave inscription in runes . The lid was found on the door of Bjolderup Church , southwest of Aabenraa in South Jutland in southern Denmark , and was brought to Kiel in 1841 . The oldest part of this church dates from the 12th century. The church was built on a hill that played a role as a place of worship even before Christianity .
The inscription reads:
- Ketil Urnæ liggir her
translated
- Ketil (von) Urn lies here.
Ketil belonged to the Urne family, which in the Middle Ages was South Jutland's largest landed noble family . Urn is part of the name of the old Thingstätte "Urnehoved tinge" that the army way is and was the site of the South Jutland country Thing. Erik II. Emune is said to have been killed on September 18, 1137 on the Thing of Urnehoved by the nobleman Sort Plov.
The coffin lid was given back to the Bjolderup community in 1986 after it had been exhibited for years in the Schleswig State Museum for Prehistory and Early History in Gottorf Castle . It is now in Bjolderup Church.
literature
- Wolfgang Laur : Runic monuments in Schleswig-Holstein and in North Schleswig . Ed .: Archaeological State Museum in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Schloss Gottorf. 2nd Edition. Schleswig 2009.
- Kingslayer variety Plov
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Coordinates: 54 ° 59 '43.1 " N , 9 ° 15' 9.3" E