Grana stone
The Granavollen stone ( Rundata N 63) is a rune stone in the cemetery of the Nikolaikirche in Gran in the Norwegian Innlandet . The church is one of the two medieval so-called sister churches ( Norwegian Søsterkirkene ) (the other is in Hadeland). The marginal inscription from the 11th century is carved in the RAK style (980-1015 AD), the oldest type. RAK inscriptions do not have a snake design, their rune ribbons end straight.
The small stone is about one meter high, about 40 cm wide and 20 cm thick at the base. The completely flat stone has a trapezoid shape and becomes narrower at the top. The rune text is dated to the last half of the 11th century and a certain Aun here reminds of his brother Aufi . The text ends with a prayer for “Aufis Sal”, or soul, a formula that was only used after Christianization.
literature
- B. Sawyer: The Viking-Age Rune-Stones. Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia. Oxford University Press, 2000
Coordinates: 60 ° 22 ′ 0.3 ″ N , 10 ° 31 ′ 45.6 ″ E