Runestone at the Råda kyrka
The trapezoidal rune stone on the Råda kyrka (Vg 40) is made of gneiss , about 200 cm high, 1.0 m wide at the base and 0.6 m wide at the top, 0.35 m thick and twisted by 90 ° into the wall of the Karnhaus the Råda kyrka (church) west of Lidköping in Västergötland in Sweden . It's a mask stone .
The text of the rune stone , dated around 1000, reads:
- þurkil sati stin þasi itiR kuna sun sin iR uarþ tuþr i uristu iR bþiþus kunukaR
- Þorkell setti stein þenna eptir Gunna, son sinn. He vard dortðr í orrostu, he barðust konungar
- Thorkel placed this stone after his son Gunne. He was killed in battle when the kings were fighting.
What kind of battle is mentioned on the stone (s) is uncertain. It may be the naval battle of Svold around the year 1000 when Olav I. Tryggvason fought against Olof Skötkonung . It may also have been the battle on Helgeå in 1025 between Knut and Anund Jakob .
literature
- L. Kitzler Åhfeld: Runstenar och eskilstunakistor i Västergötland: Ett exempel på förändrad mobilitet
- Janine Köster: death inscriptions on Viking Age rune stones. (= Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 89). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-034198-0 , pp. 23, 61, 232, 310.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The same passage can be found on the mask stone DR 66 "Stone 4 von Aarhus" (around 960/1050). On one side a mask is depicted, on the other the runic inscription reads: Gunulv and Ögot and Aslag and Rolf had this stone erected after Ful their companion who died when (the) kings were fighting
Web links
- Runestone at the Råda kyrka - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description swed.
Coordinates: 58 ° 29 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 31.5 ″ E