Björketorp runestone

Björketorpsstenen after Oscar Montelius 1877

Detail of the inscription

The neighboring Domarring

The Björketorp rune stone (DR 360) is a rune stone from the 7th century and stands on a burial ground about one kilometer west of Listerby , a crime scene in the municipality of Ronneby in the Swedish province of Blekinge län . The approximately four meter high stone is one of the tallest rune stones in Sweden and belongs to the group of Blekinger rune stones .

The rune stone is the most striking object within a find complex. It forms a triangle with two slightly lower building stones , with seven other stones the complex forms a domar ring . The overall context of the stone setting indicates a consecrated place of a cult and / or thing site .

Inscriptions

The runic inscriptions are added on both sides of the front and back of the stone. The interpretation of the Old Norse inscription is controversial. The inscription (around 675 AD) uses runes from the older Futhark and is in the meter of Galdralag , the Germanic spell or galster / galders . The text says:

HaidR runo runu, falh'k hedra ginnarunaR. Argiu hermalausR,… weladauþe, saR þat brytR.

The glossy runes (that is, the series that came from the heavenly powers) I hid here, magic runes. Restless through insolence (perversity), outside [= in a foreign place] is a treacherous death who destroys this (monument).

Uþarba spa.

I herald doom

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Wolfgang Krause: Runes. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-014042-X , pp. 84-85.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde. Metzler, 4th revised and updated edition, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-14072-2 , p. 43.
↑ Lydia Klos: Runestones in Sweden - Studies on the place of installation and function. In: Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 64, De Gruyter, Berlin - New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021464-2 , p. 88.
↑ Wolfgang Krause : Runes. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-014042-X , p. 53.

literature

Klaus Düwel : Runic lore. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, 4th revised. u. act. Edition, ISBN 978-3-476-14072-2 .
Lydia Klos: Runestones in Sweden - studies on location and function. In: Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 64.De Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021464-2 .
Wolfgang Krause : Runes. de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-014042-X .
Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ), p. 246.

Web links

Commons : Runestone by Björketorp - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Björketorp site - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)

Björketorp runestone - description of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish, PDF; 115 kB)

Different runologists read the inscriptions in the Kiel rune project

56.202282 15.380913Coordinates: 56 ° 12 ′ 8.2 ″ N , 15 ° 22 ′ 51.3 ″ E

[Krause_S84-85-1] Wolfgang Krause: Runes. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-014042-X , pp. 84-85.

[Düwel-2] Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde. Metzler, 4th revised and updated edition, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-14072-2 , p. 43.

[Klos-3] Lydia Klos: Runestones in Sweden - Studies on the place of installation and function. In: Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 64, De Gruyter, Berlin - New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021464-2 , p. 88.

[Krause_S53-4] Wolfgang Krause : Runes. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-014042-X , p. 53.