Glavendrup runestone

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The Glavendrup rune stone has the longest inscription on any Danish stone.

The rune stone of Glavendrup (DR 209) stands two kilometers southeast of Skamby in a narrow wooded area (Glavendrup-lunden) on the edge of the village of Glavendrup on the Danish island of Funen . The stone is part of an ensemble of objects.

The group consists of an old burial mound , a large set of ships from the younger Bronze Age , the stern stone of which is placed on the burial mound and was redesigned as a rune stone during the Viking Age (around 900 AD) . The ship's setting is 60 m long and 12 m wide. Nine graves were found inside, but they were all empty.

The special thing about Glavendrup is the rune stone, first described in 1792, with 210 runes, which are spread over three sides and form the longest rune inscription in Denmark. He and the runestone from Tryggevælde form a group that a woman named Ragnhild had built for different men. The carving on the stone from Rønninge was probably made by the same rune master . The stone of Glavendrup is 2.82 m high, of which 1.88 m above the ground, 1.5 m wide and weighs about seven tons. The text says:

“Ragnhild set this stone for all the pale, the god of the sanctuaries, the honored sword (captain) of the royal retinue. All of the sons made this memorial for their father and his wife for their husband, but Sote carved these runes for his master. Thor consecrate these runes! He who exercises violence against this stone or drags it away to commemorate someone else will become a coward (or: sorcerer).

The exact meaning of the word "Rita" or "Rata" is unclear; If the meaning "sorcerer" accepted by Rundata is correct, then this does not mean that the stone destroyer or displacer would acquire magic powers, but that he would be expelled from society. The idea that magicians are criminals to be persecuted existed in Scandinavia even before Christianization.

The site is used for the erection of memorial stones. 1915 a memorial stone for the Basic Law, 1920 a memorial stone for the reunification with South Jutland, 1926 a memorial stone for Ansgar (who traveled to Denmark in the 12th century), 1936 for the 400th anniversary of the Reformation and in 1946 a memorial stone for the liberation in 1945.

literature

  • Klaus Düwel : Runic lore. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, 4th revised. u. act. Ed., ISBN 978-3-476-14072-2 .
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 161.
  • Erik Moltke: Runerne i Danmark og deres oprindelse. Copenhagen 1976, p. 182 f.

Footnotes

  1. ^ ML Nielsen: Glavendrup . In: Johannes Hoops Heinrich Beck (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , Volume 12. Walter de Gruyter, 1998, ISBN 3-11-016227-X , p. 198.
  2. ↑ a b Mindy MacLeod, Mees, Bernard: Runic Amulets and Magic Objects . Boydell Press, 2006, ISBN 1-84383-205-4 , pp. 225-226.

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Coordinates: 55 ° 30 ′ 32 "  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 51"  E