Runestone from Tullstorp
The rune stone from Tullstorp is in the churchyard in the village of the same name (belonging to Trelleborgs kommun), about 20 km east of Trelleborg in southern Scania in Sweden .
It dates from around 960 to 980, when the Viking king Harald Blauzahn tried to Christianize the Danes. During this period, it was common practice to place the rune stones near a church. Most were later walled up in the churches, including here, in the church built in the mid-12th century. In 1846 the medieval church was demolished and the stone was found in the eastern wall. Today's church was consecrated on the same site as the old one on the first Advent in 1848. In the wall of the new church the stone came with its back into the wall and with its face towards the churchyard. In the 1920s it was taken out of the wall and placed in the churchyard as a memorial (in Swedish Minneslund ) at the end of the main corridor . The stone broke during a transport, but it was put together. The runes , ornaments and pictures once shone in strong colors. The representation on the very smooth face consists of the runes, the large animal and the ship.
The Skånska Akademien (Skånska Akademien) intended to make the Tullstop runestone particularly well known in 2015.
The runes
The Tullstorp stone has a band with runes on the edge that surrounds a figure. Each word is separated by a small cross. The Viking text reads:
x klibiR x auk x osa x │ x risÞu kuml + │ Þusi x uftiR x ulf +
In Swedish KLIBIR OCH ÅSA RESTE DESSA KUMMEL EFTER ULF and in German: Klibir and Asa built this burial mound for Ulf
The big beast
In the middle of the stone is "the big beast" ( Swedish det stora djuret ). It has been interpreted in various ways, such as a wolf or a heraldic panther who "often breathes fire through the mouth and nose, is horned and has hind legs like a lion, while the front legs are like an eagle." those who commented on the interpretation of the "Big Beast" did not go beyond the formal description and did not comment on the meaning.
On around 200 Swedish rune stones from the late Viking Age , figurative representations are carved next to the text in the serpentine ribbon. These include about 100 depictions of four-legged friends. Until recently, research has mainly focused on the search for models of the “big beast”.
The ship
A warship is shown. The Vikings are known for their ships and they are depicted on many rune stones. The ship on Tullstorp-Stein is not a Viking ship, but an Eastern Roman warship with a high board and ramming structures at the bow and stern, e.g. B. a dromone (a type of ship). The picture of the ship can be seen in almost exactly the same appearance on a rune stone in the distant Östergötland.
National Monument
The Tullstorp stone is completely unique and comparable to the large rune stone from Jelling (national monument and world heritage site) in southern Jutland, which also dates from the time of Harald Blauzahn. Historical evidence tells us that the Tullstorp stone is a memorial stone for the Christian significance of Ulf, who was a great man from the neighborhood and a bodyguard for the emperor of the old Eastern Roman Empire. The stone work is done in a way that is not common for Skåne-Danish rune stones. The image composition is great compared to other southern Scandinavian rune stone drawings.
See also
Curiosity
As the research found, the "rune stone of Tullstorp" served the Pomeranian clergyman and forger Gottlieb Samuel Pristaff , a native of Lusatia, as a template to prove an alleged "rune stone of Drewoldke ", today part of Altenkirchen , on the island of Rügen , around there to pretend an increased Viking presence. After 1732 such "drawings" by Pristaff came from Greifswald to Sweden. He could even deceive scholars of his time with it.
Nearby is the runestone Östra Vemmenhögsten .
literature
- Günter Krieg, Lutz Mohr : The "Drewoldke rune stone" on the island of Rügen - the product of a forger from the 18th century and its Swedish model in Tullstorp / Skane province . In: Stone Cross Research (SKF). Studies on German and international land monument research . Edited by Rainer H. Schmeissner, series of monographs, volume no. 10, Regensburg 1999, pp. 39-49
- Sigmund Oehrl: On the interpretation of anthropomorphic and theriomorphic image representations on the late Viking Age rune stones of Sweden (= Vienna Studies on Scandinavian Studies. Vol. 16). Praesens, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7069-0346-6 .
- Sven-Olle R. Olsson and Sven Rosborn: Tullstorpsstenen - en unik bildsten från vikingatiden. - 2014. tullstorp1 tullstorp2
Web links
- Runestone from Tullstorp - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description + picture
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 55 ° 24 ′ 35.7 " N , 13 ° 27 ′ 59.7" E