Runestone from Rö
The rune stone of Rö ( Swedish Roasting ; No. Bo KJ73 U) is a simple rune stone that was discovered in 1919 on the farm of Röd on the island of Otterö in the archipelago outside Grebbestad in Bohuslän in Sweden . The stone is now in the Historiska museet in Stockholm , and a copy was placed near where it was found.
The granite stone is about 2.0 meters high and more than 1.2 meters wide. The inscription is on a flat surface that has been damaged by flaking. The runes were not engraved in a serpentine ribbon, but in four parallel vertical rows. The runic inscription is written in the older Futhark and in proto-Old Norse. The shape of the runes suggests that it dates from the early 5th century, it is the longest inscription from the Iron Age .
The text reads: I set up Hrazaz / Hraþaz the stone ... Swabaharjaz with wide wounds. Stainawarijaz ... carved. “Stainawarijaz” means “stone guard”, better guardian stone. In addition, the word "fahido", which is often translated as "carved" or "inscribed", actually means "painted". Many rune stones had inscriptions painted on them, but there is no evidence that the rune stone was painted by Rö.
There are different interpretations of the inscription. The oldest is from Sven Birger Fredrik Jansson (1906–1987). Krause's 1966 translation is recognized by most other runologists, including Jesse Robert Smith in 1971 and Maria Pia Marchese in 1985. The suggestion of Alfred Bammesberger, who reads in 1999, the Swābaharjaz "has a * swēba-here".
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politikens bog om Danmarks oldtid (= Politikens håndbøger. ). Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 .
Web links
- Tanum 1059: 2 - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
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Coordinates: 58 ° 40 ′ 1 ″ N , 11 ° 14 ′ 56 ″ E