Runestone of Mervalla
The rune stone from Mervalla (Sö 198) on the Selaön (island) in Mälaren , in the parish of Ytterselö, in Södermanland is one of around 100 Swedish rune stones with "Ostfahrersschrift", including the so-called Baltic Sea rune stones of the Varangians . The text in the younger Futhark reads :
- siriþ lit resa stan (þin) a () at suen sin (b) unta h (n) uft siklt til simkala turu (m) knari um tumisnis
- “Sigrid erects this stone for Sven, her husband. He often sailed with his precious Knorr to Zemgale, around Domesnes ”.
The serpentine ribbon stone with the Irish belt and the Christian cross is simple but characteristic in its execution. The interest in the stone is so great because he both Zemgale , a landscape south of Riga in the lower reaches of the Daugava (lett. Daugava) and Domesnes, (now Kolkasrags lett. Kolkas rags) the northernmost point of the peninsula Kurland mentioned. Here is the border between the Baltic Sea and the Bay of Riga .
A copy of the stone is in the Latvian Historical Museum (Latvijas Nacionālais Vēstures muzejs), in Riga .
Nearby is the Åsa burial ground .
literature
- Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 , p. 366.
- Sigmund Oehrl : On the interpretation of anthropomorphic and theriomorphic images on the late Viking rune stones in Sweden . Vienna Studies in Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 16. (Vienna 2006).
Web links
- Description (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 22 ′ 55.2 " N , 17 ° 11 ′ 22.4" E