Dynna runestone
The rune stone from Dynna (N 68) comes from the southern Norwegian Late Viking Age (around 1050 AD). The tiny town of Dynna is located north of Oslo , about five kilometers as the crow flies south-southeast of Gran . A replica of the rune stone has now been set up there.
It is a 2.8 m high plate made of red sandstone with a runic inscription on one edge and picture engravings on the roughly triangular front. The stone is 54 cm wide and 18 cm thick at the base. The Ringerike-style pictures are among the first Christian visual arts in Norway. They indicate a connection with Scotland where similar stones can be found.
The representation
The rough pictures show a manger, the child Jesus, the star of Bethlehem and the three wise men on horseback (Matthew 2, verses 1–12). Separated by a palmette frieze, the main scene is at the bottom - for reasons of space, it is set across. The birth cave is more based on the representations of Nordic picture stones ,
The runic inscription
The rune text is written in the younger Futhark , whereby long-branch runes and short-branch runes are used inconsistently . Sometimes both the long-branch rune and the short-branch rune are used for the same phonetic character within a word.
Transfer of runic signs:
- × kunuur × kirþi × bru × þririks tutir × iftir osriþi × tutur × sina × su uas mar hanarst × o haþalanti
Translation:
- Gunnvor, Trydik's daughter built a bridge and erected a stone for her daughter Astrid. And she was the smartest girl in Hadeland.
The stone, from the top of a large burial mound, was acquired by the museum in 1879 and is now in the Kulturhistorisk Museum in Oslo . A copy is on display in the Hadeland Folkemuseum, an open-air museum in Gran.
literature
- B. Sawyer: The Viking-Age Rune-Stones. Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia, Oxford University Press, 2000
Web links
Coordinates: 60 ° 19 ′ 20 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 3 ″ E