Runic rocks from Bo Gård

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Runic rocks from Bo Gård

The runic rock of Bo Gård ( U Fv1986; 84 ) on the Kvarnbacken on the island of Lidingö in the Uppland province in the north-east of Stockholm in Sweden is on the edge of a burial ground . The large archipelago island of Lidingö, which is connected to the capital by a bridge , is also a municipality with over 42,000 inhabitants. The rune rock is dated to the end of the Viking Age (800–1050 AD). The inscription is likely to have been made around the turn of the millennium.

  • The text reads: asmu-tr ... ris-- * runaR * eftiR × stein * faþurs * faþur * sin * auk * faþur * siba * ok × geiRbiarnaR × aok ... ulfs * eaR * merki * mikit * at * man * koþan ×
  • Translated: “Asmund scratched the runes in memory of Sten, his grandfather and father Sibbes and Gerbjörns and Ulfs. Here (is) a great monument to a good man. "

Their evidenced younger settlement took place during the Nordic Iron Age . During the Vendel period (550-800 AD) the islanders began to create four burial grounds. The second largest is in the northern part of the island. There the remains of almost 50 hills, three rectangular and two round stone settings and one Treuddar can be seen. In 1984 the runic inscription came to light on a rock while scraping the mosses from the rock.

It is a memorial inscription for Asmund's grandfather Sten. Sten's three sons are also mentioned. From the inscription it is not clear whether one of the three Asmunds was father. The inscription ends with an individual addition, in which the importance of the monument is emphasized and the deceased is recognized as a “good man”. Even if the Christian intercession is missing, the cross in the runic serpent indicates that at least Sten's descendants were Christians.

Runologically it is interesting that three different spellings are used for the word "ok" (Eng. "And"): auk, ok and aok. The word grandfather ("father's father") occurs only on the rock of Bo Gård in another Swedish runic inscription. Since Sten's sons are not named as the commissioners of the monument, one can assume that they had already died when Asmund had it done. Whether Sten and his sons are in the adjacent burial ground can only be guessed.

literature

  • Ylva Runinge Ekaberg: Vandra på Lidingö - Vägvisare för en skogsled och två stadsleder . Lidingö Commun.
  • Lena Peterson: Svenskt runordsregister. Runron 2 . Institutions för nordiska språk, Uppsala universitetet 2006

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Coordinates: 59 ° 22 ′ 26.5 ″  N , 18 ° 9 ′ 41.5 ″  E