Hitsten

The Hitissten (or Hitis fragment) is a rune stone from sandstone , which in 1997 the Archipelago Sea ( Åboland ) outside of Turku in Finland was discovered. It is now in the Rosala Municipality Viking Museum. A resident of the island of Stora Ängesön in Dragsfjärd found the stone that was stuck in the seabed at the pier . Stora Ängesön is not far from an old port near Kyrksundet, where traces of a Viking trading post have been found.

It is the first secured runestone found in Finland. Marit Åhlén from Runverket in Stockholm examined the stone and classified the inscription as Viking Age , although only a few sequences could be interpreted . It is reminiscent of the Ågerstasten ( U 729) in Löt near Enköping in Uppland , who came from the rune master Balle . The stone could also have come from him and came into the archipelago as ballast and then dumped into the sea much later.

The fragment measures approximately 30 × 30 cm and is 20 cm thick. The inscriptions are quite weathered. The text is arranged in two parallel contours. The piece appears to be the upper right corner of a rune stone. Relief decorations are visible on the fragment.

literature

Klaus Düwel : Runic lore. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler, 4th edition 2008. ISBN 978-3-476-14072-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ Vörårunorna are strange characters found in Finland on moving objects on the border with Sweden, which are rune-like but need not be runes. One text mentions the Gothic female name Botwi, which does not come from Finland, but from Gotland . None of the Vörårunas are certainly from the Viking Age. There is great uncertainty among researchers about their age.

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[1] Vörårunorna are strange characters found in Finland on moving objects on the border with Sweden, which are rune-like but need not be runes. One text mentions the Gothic female name Botwi, which does not come from Finland, but from Gotland . None of the Vörårunas are certainly from the Viking Age. There is great uncertainty among researchers about their age.