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Modern runestones (as imitations or forgeries of Viking Age runestones) began to be produced in the 19th century Viking Revival. The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base ( Samnordisk runtextdatabas ) is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of runestones in the Rundata database.
A runestone from the church of Resmo on Öland has been repainted. It is presently at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. Today, most runestones are painted with falu red, since the colour red makes it easy to discern the ornamentation, and it is appropriate since red paint was also used on runes during the Viking Age. [60]
Of the personal names in the inscription, Ásmundr means "Divine Hand" [2] and Farthegn means either "Far-Travelling Thegn" or "Far-Traveling Warrior." [ 3 ] The name Thorketill or Þorketil, which includes as a theophoric name element the Norse pagan god Thor , signifies a "Vessel of Thor" or "Kettle of Thor", possibly a type of sacrificial ...
Runestones in Sweden. Subcategories. This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. B. Runestones in Blekinge (1 C, 8 P) Runestones in Bohuslän ...
Another runestone raised in memory of a man who died in the same retinue is found in Södermanland, the Råby Runestone. [11] The Kolsta runestone is carved in runestone style Pr3, and it is not older than the mid-11th century as indicated by the use of dotted runes and the use of the ansuz rune for the o phoneme. [10] '
The Gällsta Runestones from the 11th century commemorate four generations of the same family in Viking Age Sweden. There are three runestones (U 229, U 231 and U 232) and a raised stone which is only inscribed with a cross (U 230). [ 1 ]
A reading of the Frösö Runestone's text in Old East Norse. Frösöstenen (J RS1928;$66 ) is the northernmost raised runestone in Scandinavia [Note 1] and Jämtland's only runestone. It originally stood at the tip of ferry terminal on the sound between the island of Frösön and Östersund. On it is inscribed:
The origin of the Rundata project was a 1986 database of Swedish inscriptions at Uppsala University for use in the Scandinavian Languages Department. [2] At a seminar in 1990 it was proposed to expand the database to cover all Nordic runic inscriptions, but funding for the project was not available until a grant was received in 1992 from the Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons foundation. [2]