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14-522: Frösöstenen ( J RS1928;$ 66 ) is the northernmost raised runestone in Scandinavia 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 following Old Norse person and place names appear in the inscription: The stone is also unique in that it was done in memory of Austmaðr's Christianization of Jämtland and bridge building, rather than as
28-431: A cenotaph . The stone dates to between 1030 and 1050. It has now been relocated to the lawn in front of the local county seat due to the construction of a new bridge, between 1969 and 1971, on the original site. 63°11′00″N 14°37′08″E / 63.18333°N 14.61889°E / 63.18333; 14.61889 Rundata The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base ( Swedish : Samnordisk runtextdatabas )
42-420: A previous method of cataloging. The third part of the code is a character which indicates the age ( Proto-Norse , Viking Age , or Middle Ages ) and whether the inscription is lost or retranslated. As such, U 88 would mean that the stone is from Uppland and that it is the 88th to be catalogued. This system has its origin in the book Sveriges runinskrifter (English: "Runic Inscriptions of Sweden") Most of
56-456: A son who is not named, but Germund drowned and the son died. Then Gerlög remarried with Gudrik and they had several children, but only one survived, who was named Inga. Inga married Ragnfast of Snottsta (also spelled Snåttsta) and they had a son who is not named. Both Ragnfast and the son died, so Inga inherited the estate Snottsta. The four Snottsta and Vreta stones at Snottsta and Vreta say that Ragnfast, Inga's husband has died. Ragnfast
70-544: A turbulent time of religious wars between Pagans and Christians concerning the sacrifices at the Temple at Uppsala , and like many people of their social standing they had chosen the new faith. Their saga has been the centre of an exposition at the Stockholm County Museum dramatizing their story. The Hillersjö stone is the main inscription. It recounts that Gerlög married with Germund in her maidenhood, and they had
84-663: A variety of reference works and scholarly publications. Some of the more notable of these include: Other bibliography information is available inside the Rundata client program by pressing F4 . Gerlög and Inga : Färentuna Runestones , Hillersjö stone , Snottsta and Vreta stones Runic transliteration and transcription Gerl%C3%B6g and Inga Gerlög or Geirlaug and her daughter Inga were two powerful and rich women in 11th-century Uppland , Sweden . Gerlög and Inga had their dramatic and tragic family saga documented for posterity on several runestones . They lived in
98-490: Is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of transliterated runic inscriptions . The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way for future research. The database is freely available via the Internet with a client program , called Rundata , for Microsoft Windows . For other operating systems , text files are provided or a web browser can be used to interact with
112-410: The project was no longer funded and work continued on a voluntary basis outside of normal work-hours. In the current edition, published on December 3, 2008, there are over 6500 inscriptions in the database. Work is currently underway for the next edition of the database. Each entry includes the original text,in a transliterated form, its location, English and Swedish translations, information about
126-401: The reason why this is mentioned is possibly because there was a disagreement about the inheritance. What is clear is that they are mentioned to explain how they relate to Inga. The Hillersjö stone continues the story by telling that Inga married again with a man named Eric, but apparently both Inga and Eric soon died without leaving any children, as Gerlög inherited her daughter. This text
140-462: The runestones is that Ragnfast had a housecarl named Assur. Why this is important is not mentioned, but it is likely that Assur had a strong position in the clan and may have inherited some of Ragnfast's property. Furthermore, the Snottsta runestone U 329 contains some information about a third and a fourth woman, Estrid and Gyrid. It says that Ragnfast is the brother of Gyrid and Estrid, and
154-404: The stone itself, et cetera. The stones are identified with a code which consists of up to three parts. The first part describes the origin of the inscription. For Swedish inscriptions this contains a code for the province , and, for Extra-Nordic inscriptions, a code for the country (not ISO 3166 ). Province code: Country code: The second part of the code consists of a serial number or
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#1732869610518168-540: The time, the Period/Datering information in Rundata just gives the date as V , meaning Viking Age , which is very broad. For some Danish inscriptions from Jacobsen & Moltke a more precise sub-period is given. The periods used are: Many of the inscriptions in Rundata also include a field called Stilgruppering . This refers to date bands determined by the style of ornamentation on the stone as proposed by Gräslund: The date bands are: The catalog numbers refer to
182-632: The web application Runor . The origin of the Rundata project was a 1986 database of Swedish inscriptions at Uppsala University for use in the Scandinavian Languages Department. 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. The project officially started on January 1, 1993 at Uppsala University. After 1997,
196-494: Was the sole inheritor of the estate Snottsta after his father Sigfast. One of the stones gives the central information "she inherited her child". This statement agrees with what is said on the Hillersjö stone , which is that Inga inherited instead of her son, a son who was not named, probably because he was very young. The central message of these runestones is "Inga inherited Snottsta after Ragnfast". Further information provided by
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