Runestone from Ockelbo
The Ockelbo rune stone ( Samnordisk runtextdatabas Gs 19) is a copy of a 2.15 m high, 1.23 m wide, 0.25 to 0.4 m thick rune stone found in a park on Södra Åsgata in Ockelbo in the south of Gästrikland in Sweden stands.
The rune stone from the period between 1066 and 1100 AD was discovered in 1795 in the foundation of the church of Ockelbo . It broke into three parts when it was removed. In 1830 the parts were found on a farm in Ockelbo and moved to the Ockelbo church. There the stone shown several times was destroyed in a church fire in 1904.
The badly preserved scratch in the upper part shows episodes from the legend of Sigurd Fafnesbane . Comparable representations are known of six other rune stones in Sweden, which are collectively referred to as Sigurd stones ( Sö 101 , Sö 327 , U 1163, Bo NIYR; 3, U 1175 , Gs 9 and Gs 19).
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According to Gästrikland's runic inscriptions, this inscription was on the original stone:
“Bläsa had this beautiful stone brand erected for his son Svarthövde. Fridälv was his mother ... "
literature
- Sven Birger Fredrik Jansson: Gästriklands runinskrifter (= Sveriges runinskrifter , Volume 15.1), Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala 1981, ISBN 91-7402-124-9 , pp. 186-220. ( online )
Web links
- Runestone from Ockelbo - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description (Swedish)
Coordinates: 60 ° 53 ′ 14.8 " N , 16 ° 42 ′ 54.1" E