Beresan runestone
The Berezan runestone is a runestone probably from the 11th century on the island of Berezan on the lower reaches of the Dnieper , before its mouth into the Black Sea in today's Ukraine . It is the only known runestone in the Kievan Rus region .
The stone residue is 48 cm wide, 47 cm high and 12 cm thick and bears the inscription:
- "Grani made this stone for his partner Karl".
The inscription and shape of the stone suggest that they were probably Gotland merchants.
The stone was found in 1905 during the excavation of a mound by Ernst von Stern , professor at the University of Odessa . In the Kurgan that was built in the 6th or 5th century BC In addition to the original burial, 48 later body burials were found, some of them in stone boxes . In one of these boxes a corpse lay on a stone made of shell limestone, on the back of which the runic writing was discovered.
literature
- F. Braun, TJ Arne: Den svenska runstenen från ön Berezanj utanför Dneprmynningen ( The Swedish rune stone on Beresan before the mouth of the Dnjepr ), in: E. Ekhoff (ed.): Fornvännen årgång 9 , 1914, pp. 44-48. on-line
Web links
- Beresan rune stone (Swedish, PDF; 497 kB)
- Beresan rune stone (Swedish)
Remarks
- ↑ Inscription: "krani: kerþi: (h) alf: þisi: iftir: kal: fi: laka: si (n)", Old Norse reading: "Grani gærði hvalf þessi æfti R Karl, felaga sinn", rune stone X UaFv 1914; 47
Coordinates: 46 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ N , 31 ° 24 ′ 36 ″ E