Runestone from Borup
The Borup rune stone found in 1995 (No. DR AUD 1995; 279) was discovered when the stone pavement was lifted on the north side of Borup Church , north of Randers . The rune stone protruded from under the threshold of the walled-up north portal and was brought to the cultural history museum of Randers in Jutland , Denmark . Today the stone is in the armory of Borup Church.
The stone had been used as a door threshold during the construction of the Romanesque church and broke in two due to the pressure of the door-pillar portal that rested at both ends. Due to the lowering of the terrain, apparently at the same time as the walling up of the door, a stone about 30 cm high was placed on it as a threshold.
The stone, which is about 1.7 m high, 0.8 m wide and 0.3 m thick, has a rune height of 11-16 cm and a height of 140 cm above the ground, the well-preserved inscription is 1.3 m high and about 0.73 m wide. The runes are in two parallel framed bands that follow the contour of the stone in an arch. Two round or elongated recesses were used as separators. The inscription begins (in opposite directions) at the bottom right and ends at the bottom left in the outer band, in the middle of the word (father). It is continued in the inner band from left to right. The text reads: "Asi built this stone after Thorgot, his father, Bove's son, the best of thegn " (follower).
The arrangement of inscriptions in runic ribbons with a baseline is also known from the rune stones (e.g. Grensten DR 91, Langå 3, Øster Bjerregrav 2 and Vester Tørslev ) in this area.
Due to the structure of the inscription and the runes used, the inscription was dated to the end of the 9th or beginning of the 10th century. Most of the stones in the area date from this period. The Borup stone fits into this pattern because it was built for a "Thegn". Stones with this designation can be found massed around Randers and in western central Sweden, individually also on Bornholm , Funen and Lolland and Himmerland and in smaller groups in Skåne , Uppland .
It is relatively rare that three generations are mentioned on Danish rune stones; but also occurs on the rune stones of Grensten and Asmild . All names mentioned are also known from other rune stones. The sequence “bistat” is probably a typographical error for “bistan”.
literature
- Michael Lerche Nielsen: På sporet af Borups vikinger, tanker omkring en by og the runesten. 1996
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 p. 95
Coordinates: 56 ° 30 '17.3 " N , 9 ° 59' 7.5" E