Runestone from Helnæs
The rune stone from Helnæs (DK: Fyn 8, DR 190) is a rune stone that comes from the Danish Helnæs peninsula on Funen . The rune stone belongs to the Helnæs-Gørlev group of the oldest Danish rune inscriptions on stone from the early Viking Age (750/800 to 900 AD)
The stone is a memorial stone that Gode Roulv donated to his drowned nephew Gudmund. He was found lying face up in 1860 while plowing a field on the peninsula. The lost environment is determined by an about 80 m away neolithischen passage grave . The stone was smashed on site. During the transfer to what was then the Copenhagen Old Norse Museum on the instructions of King Frederick VII , fragments were lost, which impaired the legibility of the runic inscription. In 1935 an attempt was made to rearrange the fragments and to reconstruct the stone with some errors in the assembly. After the reconstruction, the stone was built into the "rune hall" of the National Musset .
The stone has a height of 210 cm, a width of 100 cm and a thickness of 60 cm. The time of installation or inscription of the creation is estimated around the year 800, possibly at a somewhat earlier point in time in the 8th century.
inscription
- Transliteration
- rHuulfR sati stain nuRa | kuþi aft kuþuMut bruþur | sunu sin truknaþu - [...] | ąuaiR faþi
- transcription
- HrōulfR satti stæin, {nuRa} goði, æft Guðumund, brōðursun sinn. Druknaðu [...] ĀvæiRR fāði.
- Translation (Stoklund)
- Ruolf nuRa-Gode put (the) stone after Gudmund, his brother's son, (they) drowned [...] Åver ritze (actually colored)
literature
- Klaus Düwel : Runic lore. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, 4th revised. u. act. Ed., ISBN 978-3-476-14072-2 .
- Marie Stoklund: Helnæs, runological . In: Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich, Heiko Steuer (eds.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , Vol. 14, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016227-X , pp. 340–341.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 32 ″ E