Runestone from Stenkvista
The runestone of Stenkvista , referred to as the runestone Sö 111, stands near the church of Stenkvista, two kilometers east of Skogstorp in Södermanland in Sweden . It features a depiction of Thor's hammer Mjolnir . The rune stone is one of the few rune stones in Scandinavia that has a dedication to Thor. Most of the rune stones date from the late Viking Age (800–1050 AD). However, the inscription of stones began in the 4th and lasted until the 12th century.
description
The 2.2 m high rune stone is made of granite . It is classified as a serpentine ribbon stone, where (most) of the text is in ribbons of snakes. The rune master arranged the design here so that the runes þiuþmunt (for the name of the man) and Fathur * sin (for "her father") are under the hanging Thorhammer. The Thor's hammers carved on several runestones in Sweden and Denmark were applied, perhaps as a pagan reaction to the use of the Christian cross on other runestones. The runic text says that the stone is a memorial made by three sons to their father Þjóðmundr . Two pagan gods appear as theophoric name elements in two listed names. The name Freygeirr is translated as "Freyr's Sperr" and Þorgautr as "Thor God". Freygeirr is also the name of a Viking chief who, around 1050, brought Leidangs to Finland and Estonia.
inscription
Transfer of the runic script into Latin script
- * helki * auk * fraykai * auk * þorkautr * raistu * merki * siun * at * þiuþmunt * faþur * sin
Transfer into Old Norse
- Helgi ok Freygeirr ok Þorgautr reistu merki sírún / sírýn at Þjóðmund, fôður sinn .
translation
- "Helgi and Freygeirr and Þorgautr erected this stone in memory of Þjóðmundr their father."
Other Thorstones
Other rune stones or inscriptions with the representation of Thor's hammer are the rune stones U 1161 in Altuna (with a sculptural representation of Thor's fish haul ), Sö 86 in Åby, Sö 140 from Jursta, Vg 113 in Lärkegapet, Oil 1 in Karlevi, and DR 331 today in Lund Schonen (all in Sweden) and DR 26 , DR 48 and DR 120 in Spentrup (in Denmark, where pictorial representations are rare in contrast to Sweden).
Nearby is the Kolunda runestone .
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen : Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ).
- Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 .
Web links
- Runestone from Stenkvista - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 18 ′ 52.1 ″ N , 16 ° 31 ′ 57.2 ″ E