Bjälbo rune stones
The rune stones from Bjälbo (Ög 64 to Ög 66) are / were three rune stones at the church of Bjälbo in the municipality of Mjölby , in the west of Östergötland in Sweden . Ög 64 and Ög 66 are in the cemetery. LC 65, which was also found in the church, has been lost.
Runestone Ög 64
Ög 64 is a 3.2 m high, slender granite stone that was found immured in the church. The stone was removed from the wall together with Ög 66 in 1935, repaired and moved to the cemetery. The inscription in the younger Futhark , which is in a curved line without any ornamentation , is classified as the RAK runic style typical of Danish stones. This classification applies to text ribbons with straight ends without snake or animal heads. The inscription comes from a rune master named Lófi, who does not appear on any other surviving rune stone.
The text says that the stone was erected by members of a Viking guild as a memorial to a man named Greipr. The guild does not name itself in detail, but the rune master Lófi was also a member of this guild .
Ög 64 is one of four rune stones mentioned by guilds in the Viking Age (800–1050 AD) in Sweden, the other three are U 379 in Kyrkogården, U 391 in Prästgatan and Ög MÖLM 1960; 230 in Törnevalla. These stones and others, which so-called Félags (partnerships; cf. English Fellow) attest (such as the Skivarpsstenen DR 270 in Skåne ), are regarded as evidence of trading activities during this time. The guild members call themselves "drængiaʀ" ( German "brave men" ). "Drengr" is usually a title associated with fighters, but on the RunensteinÖg Mölm 1960; 230 it was used as a designation for a guild member, which suggests that the term was also used among merchants.
Runestone Ög 65
Ög 65 is the name of an inscription that was recorded in the church of Bjälbo and has since been lost. Based on its partially reconstructed text, the stone was erected by a man in memory of his wife Ragnhildr.
Runestone Ög 66
Ög 66 is a slender granite stone about 4.0 m high, 70 cm wide and 45 cm thick . The stone was walled in in the church and in 1935 it was removed from the wall together with Ög 64 and moved to the cemetery. The inscription in the younger Futhark is in the serpent band typical of Sweden . The inscription is classified as carved in the runestone style Fp. This classification applies to text bands with snake or animal heads, which are shown in bird's eye view ( Swedish fågelperspektiv ). The head and tail of the snake form a knot at the bottom of the stone. At the top is a Christian cross. Because the stone was cut with Danish runes, it is believed that Styvjad came from Denmark. The text says that the Ingivaldr stone was erected as a memorial to his brother Styfjaldr, who was the son of Spjallboði. Since the rule existed, at least for a time, that two consecutive identical letters are represented by a single rune, even if they are at the end of one word and form the beginning of the second word and separators were not used uniformly, there are two possible, but similar transliterations of the rune text.
Nearby is the Högby rune stone .
literature
- Otto Sjögren: Sverige geografisk beskrivning del 2 Östergötlands, Jönköpings, Kronobergs, Kalmar och Gotlands län . Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1931.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birger Jarl was the son of Magnus Minnesköld von Bjälbo and Ingrid Ylva, granddaughter of Sverker I. He came from the Bjälbo family, which had made several Jarles since 1200 .
Web links
- Runenstein Ög 64 - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Runestone Ög 66 - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 17 ′ 42.1 ″ N , 14 ° 46 ′ 30.7 ″ E