Arentuna runestone
The rune stone from Ärentuna ( U 1014 ), which is slightly damaged at the upper edge, is located at the church of Ärentuna north of Uppsala in Uppland in Sweden .
The runic inscription consists of text in a serpentine ribbon, which is incised around a center where the head and tail of the serpent are intertwined. The rune stone made of gneiss is 1.0 m high and 1.1 m wide. For stylistic reasons, the inscription was attributed to the rune master Øpir (possibly Pop Upir Lichoj), who was active more than 80 times in the late 11th or early 12th century as one of the last rune masters in Södermanland and Uppland. He arranged the inscription around a complicated, blank animal design in the runestone style Pr5, also known as the Urnes style . The style is characterized by sleek, stylized and tightly woven animals. The animal heads shown in profile usually have almond-shaped eyes and rolled up rusts on their noses or throats. However, the stone is unsigned as one of only 11 stones. A small Greek cross in the upper part seems to have been added later.
The text reads: Holmgeirr / Hjalmgeirr raised the stone in memory of Ígulfastr (?) And Svarthôfði, his sons. The name Svarthôfði, translated "Schwarzkopf", was often used as a nickname.
The rune stone U 1015 is similar in design, but unlike the rune stone by Ed , it is not attributed to Øpir.
literature
- Henrik Williams : Åsrunan. Användning och ljudvärde i runsvenska steninskrifter. (= Runrön, 3). Institutions för nordiska språk, Uppsala 1990, ISBN 91-506-0807-X , ISSN 1100-1690 , pp. 125, 165 ff.
- Upplands runinskrifter 1-4. Fjärde delen. Edited and edited by Elias Wessén , Sven Birger Fredrik Jansson (= Sveriges runinskrifter, 9). Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, Stockholm 1958, p. 216 ff.
Web links
- Ärentuna 13: 2 - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 57 ′ 17.1 ″ N , 17 ° 36 ′ 21.4 ″ E