Åby runestone
The runestone from Åby ( Samnordisk runtextdatabas Sö 86) is a rune block from the Viking Age in Södra Åby near Alberga , west of Eskilstuna in Södermanland in Sweden .
The stone was called "Skrivarsten" at the end of the 19th century and consists of a block of reddish granite measuring about 5.2 × 3.5 meters and 2.0 meters high . The incision is on the east side and measures around 180 × 160 cm. The rune height is 7 to 9 cm. The scoring in the snake band in younger Futhark encloses a Thor's hammer , the small two queues is supported, and shows up probably a Thor mask .
Thor's hammers were used on several rune stones in Sweden and Denmark, possibly as a pagan response to the use of the cross by Christians. Other surviving rune stones or inscriptions showing a Thor's hammer are among others in Sweden the rune stones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 111 in Stenkvista, Sö 140 from Jursta, Vg 113 in Lärkegapet, Öl 1 in Karlevi and DR 331 today in Lund ( Schonen ) and in Denmark the stones DR 26 , DR 48 and DR 120 in Spentrup.
inscription
Transfer of the runic script into Latin script
- : asmuhtr: auk: fraybiurn * litu kera: meki * siRun * at * herbiurn * faþur: sin
Transfer into Old Norse
- Ásmundr ok Frøybjorn létu gæra mæ [r] ki sírún at Hærbiorn, faður sinn.
translation
- "Asmundr and Freybjörn had a monument with runes made for Herbjörn, their father."
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen : Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ).
- Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 .
Web links
- Åby runestone - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ John McKinnell, Rudolf Simek: Runes, magic and religion: a sourcebook (= Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia , Vol. 10.), Fassbaender, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-9005-3881-6 , p. 122 f. ( online )
Coordinates: 59 ° 17 ′ 19.3 " N , 16 ° 6 ′ 27.5" E