Runestone from Södra Beteby

The rune stone of Södra Beteby (Sö 261) is a rune stone in Södra Beteby, south of Österhaninge on the Södertörn peninsula in Södermanland in Sweden . It stands south of a farm in a meadow on the west side of the Husbyån river.

The rune stone is dated to around 1000 AD. The indecipherable "text" consists of rune-like characters. One has to assume that the runestone had a different meaning or function. If they are magical or secret runes , then the question arises why they are on this stone and who carved and paid for it.

The ornamentation is simple with a bird's eye view ( Swedish fågelperspektiven ) shown snake, whose nose points to an unadorned Christian cross. The rune stone is on Husbyån, which passed through a number of larger villages during the Viking Age . To the east of the stone there is a burial ground from the younger Iron Age . The next stone at Husbyån was the lost stone Sö 263. West of Sö 261 in the forest is the rune stone Sö 260, which is legible and stylistically matches stone Sö 261.

Nearby are the runic plates of Tyresta by and the Urine Gestures .

literature

Klaus Düwel: Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Volume 72). 4th edition. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2008.

Lydia Klos: Runestones in Sweden. Studies on the installation site and function (= supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 64). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021464-2 .

Web links

Runestone from Södra Beteby - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)

Individual evidence

↑ Secret runes ( Norwegian : Lønnruner ) are monoalphabetic encryption methods for runic inscriptions that are based on a coordinate system . The principle and representation are similar to the island Celtic Ogham script. The meaning and purpose of this cryptographic method are not known, but ritual motifs are suspected in addition to mere secrecy .

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[1] Secret runes ( Norwegian : Lønnruner ) are monoalphabetic encryption methods for runic inscriptions that are based on a coordinate system . The principle and representation are similar to the island Celtic Ogham script. The meaning and purpose of this cryptographic method are not known, but ritual motifs are suspected in addition to mere secrecy .