Kalleby runestone
The Kalleby rune stone stands opposite the church on the outskirts of Tanumshede , in Bohuslän in Sweden . The writing is said to have been punched into the boulder around 400 AD and is one of the oldest runic inscriptions in older Futhark .
The height of the rune stone made of granite is 2.35 m. When the stone was found about 5 km south of its current location in the early 19th century, it was used as a footbridge over a stream; its original location is unknown. There is no generally accepted interpretation of the inscription that Theodor von Grienberger, Enver Achmedovic Makaev, Elmer H. Antonsen, Thorhallur Eythorsson, Wolfgang Krause, Herbert Jankuhn, Jesse Robert Smith, John McKinnell and Ottar Grönvik tried. Five interpretations have been put together by the Nordic Institute of the University of Kiel. The fact that there is no agreement in the interpretation is likely to be related to the symmetry used by the rune scorer . The horizontal reflections in the font on the Kalleby stone are striking. The runes have to be read from the right side, from bottom to top.
literature
- Ottar Grønvik : The rune stone from Tanum - a religious-historical monument from the Norse era. In: Tore Ahlbäck (Ed.): Old Norse and Finnish Religions and Cultic Place-Names. Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, Åbo 1990, ISBN 978-9516496958 , pp. 273-293.
Web links
- Description (swed.) And pictures
- Tanum 576: 1 - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 42 ′ 59 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E