Runestone from Læborg

Runes from Læborg - shown here upside down with the Thorhammer below

The found in 1638 Laeborg Runestone is in the Romanesque church in the cemetery of the west of Kolding in Jutland located Danish community Læborg in South Denmark .

The runestone DR26 from Læborg

The peculiarity of the rune stone is that here - something unusual - a Thor's hammer is carved. Other surviving rune stones or inscriptions showing Thor's hammer in Sweden are the seven rune stones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 86 in Åby, Sö 111 in Stenkvista, Sö 140 from Jursta, Vg 113 in Lärkegapet, Öl 1 in Karlevi, DR 331 today in Lund ( Scania ) and in Denmark the two stones DR 48 from Hanning and DR 120 in Spentrup.

The inscription carved by the rune master Tuve on the granite block comes from the Viking Age (800–1050 AD) and reads:

rhafnukatufi ÷ hiau ÷ runaR: þasi aft þurui ÷ trutnik: sin:

Tófi Hrafnunga had these runes scratched in memory of his wife Þyrvé 

literature

• Peter Vilhelm Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1967 p, 200

Web links

• Sö111, with Thorhammer at the Stenkvista Church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Runristare. Retrieved March 31, 2020 (dk). 

Coordinates: 55 ° 31 '22.7 "  N , 9 ° 6' 52.6"  E