Tryggevælde runestone
The rune stone from Tryggevælde (DR 230; DK Sj 82), dated from 900 to 950 AD, is made of granite and is one of the earliest known rune stones in Denmark . The 3.25 m high, 1.24 m wide and 30 to 45 cm thick stone from the earlier Viking Age was mentioned as early as 1597 and is said to have been found around 50 years earlier on a hill near the Tryggevælde farm. Around 1550 he was moved to Tryggevellet Borggård. 100 years later he was transferred to the Vallø Bridge. In 1810 the stone was brought to Copenhagen and placed in the Trinity cemetery. In 1867 it came to the National Museum in Copenhagen , where it still stands today. The holes in the stone are interpreted as "slide holes" that originate from the various transports of the stone.
The rune text , 13 to 25 cm high, reads:
- raknhiltr 'sustiR' ulfs' sati 'stain þnnsi' auk 'karþi' hauk 'þonsi auft' auk skaiþ 'þaisi' kunulf 'uar sin' klomulan man (s) un 'nairbis' faiR' uarþa 'nu futiR' sa þoi batri ' uarþi 'at (') rita 'is ailti? stain þonsi
iþa hiþan traki.
- Ragnhildr, Ulfr's sister, set this stone and made this hill and this ship -setting in memory of her husband Gunnulfr, a brilliant man, Nerfir's son. Few were born better than him. On the back it says: A "fool" is the one who damages this stone or removes it.
This protective formula is almost identical to that on the Glavendrup runestone , but the meaning of the verb * ælti and the designation * ræte is disputed. The Glavendrup stone on Fyn was set by the same Ragnhild for an all. Ragnhild was probably married twice and was at the top of society. The stone was probably carved by the rune master Sote, to whom three rune stones are ascribed: the Tryggevælde stone and the Rønningestenen and Glavendrup stones, the latter both on Funen. It is unclear in which order the stones were scratched.
The stone is said to have originally come from the nearby Hothers Høj (also known as Kirkehøj or Kong Hothers Høj) in the cemetery of Hårlev Kirke in Hårlev near Køge on the Danish island of Zealand . The inscription on the stone mentions a stone ship, so that the stone as the Glavendrupstein a Steve Stone was.
literature
- Klaus Düwel : Runic lore. Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, 4th revised. u. act. Ed., ISBN 978-3-476-14072-2 .
- Erik Moltke : Runerne i Danmark og deres oprindelse. Copenhagen 1976.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 20 ′ 54.6 ″ N , 12 ° 14 ′ 29 ″ E