Bjerring runestone
The Bjerring runestone ( Danish Bjerringsten ) was discovered in 1996 during restoration work on the church of Bjerring in Viborg Municipality in Jutland , Denmark .
The rune stone (DR AUD1996; 274 or DK MJy 10) lay with the inscription facing up under the floor of the armory as a threshold and foundation stone for the Romanesque north portal. When the stone was recovered, it turned out that a mask was incised on the back , the upper half of which (with faint traces of red paint) was missing, as part of the stone had been chipped off so that it could be fitted.
The inscription is on an area of about 170 × 94 cm in five parallel rows, each of which can be read from bottom to top. There is also a short sixth row on the left edge of the stone. The inscription begins in the middle row and continues to read on the right. The text then continues on the second row from the left and ends in the far left row. It reads: Thorgun, Karlungs / Karung's daughter built [this] stone after Thore, her husband, Tholf's son .. but Tófi the blacksmith, his relative carved the stone. May the stone ... from its place ... and Ingulv.
The stone has a weight of about 1.5 tons. The rune stone was placed in the armory of the church. The mask on the back, which was traced with red paint, is difficult to access due to its proximity to the wall. The rune stone is dated to the end of the 9th century.
Bjerring Church is about 4.0 km from Mammen, where a chamber grave from the Viking Age (800-1050 AD) was excavated in Bjerringhøj in 1868 . The decoration of the finds, especially an ax, gave the name of the so-called Mammenstil . During a subsequent excavation in 1986, a dendrochronological determination of the mammoth grave for the winter of 970/971 could be made on the basis of wood finds , which could match the rune stone, whose original location is unknown.
literature
- Lise Gjedssø Bertelsen: Maskesten i sen vikingetidskunst. In: Jens Vellev (Ed.): Romanske Stenarbejder. Volume 5, Hikuin, Højbjerg 2003, pp. 17-38.
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 95.
Coordinates: 56 ° 22 ′ 44.3 " N , 9 ° 37 ′ 21.5" E