Runestone from Svartsjö
The Svartsjö rune stone (U 35) is located in the municipality of Ekerö , on the island of Färingsö , near Svartsjö Castle in Uppland in Sweden .
The rune stone from the Viking Age (800-1050 AD) has a central ornament of two animals with crossed legs, which stand in the place of the otherwise often applicable cross. The animals are framed by an inscribed ribbon of snakes with a snake with a grotesquely open mouth and an Irish paddock . The thin granite rune stone is about 3.0 meters high and 2.0 meters wide.
The translation of the runes reads: Adils and Ösel (?) And Olov (?) Had this stone built after Vigisl, their father, husband of Ärnfrid.
The name Adils or Aðísl seems to have been rare during the Viking Age and later. He does not appear in any other Swedish runic inscription. The name appears as Eadgils in the Ynglingasaga , other Nordic sagas and in Beowulf , as the name of a Swedish king of the 6th century. It also appears on the Br Olsen runestone; 215 - Kirk Michael (III), MM 130 on the Isle of Man . The text says that the stone is a memorial of three sons for their father Vigisl, the husband of Ärnfrid. By referring to Ärnfrid in this way, the text indicates that she died when the stone was erected. Arnfrid is a female name consisting of Arn, 'eagle' and -frid, 'beautiful'.
literature
- Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 , p. 366.
Web links
- Runestone from Svartsjö - entry in the database "Fornsök" of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 21 '48.3 " N , 17 ° 43' 59.2" E