Skårby runestone
The runestone from Skårby 1 (Swedish Skårbystenen 1 ; also called Gusnava stone) with the hallmark DR 280 or Lund 11: 4 is a runestone made of granite that was in the parish of Skårby in the municipality of Ystad in the Swedish province of Schonen . Today the rune stone is placed in front of the Open Air Museum Cultures in Lund .
The stone is made in the RAK style of the 10th century, in which the tapes are worked with smooth ends ( rune stone from Kalleby ) and which almost always does not have any image parts. Here, however, “The Big Beast” is shown in its oldest form. The rune master presumably also worked on the Hunnestad monument .
The text reads: Káulfr / Kalfr and Autir set this stone in memory of Tumi, their brother, who owned Guðissnapi (today's village of Gusnava) .
There is also the unspectacular rune stone Skårby 2 from the same period.
literature
- S. 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, ISBN 3-7069-0346-6
- Ivar Lindquist: Runstenen från Skårby. In: Cultures. En årsbok till medlemmarna av Kulturhistoriska Föreningen för södra Sverige , 1961. pp. 15-17.
Web links
- Runestone from Skårby - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 16.6 " N , 13 ° 11 ′ 46.4" E