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17-461: The inscription on the Tullstorp Runestone consists of runic text on a serpent band that frames a central image consisting of a ship and a beast, which has been described as being a wolf. The stone is granite and 1.7 meters in height, and the inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr1, which is also known as Ringerike style . The original site of the Tullstorp Runestone

34-405: 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 a previous method of cataloging. The third part of the code

51-639: A mane and pointed ears similar to the depiction of the wolf on inscription DR 284 of the Hunnestad Monument and the two wolves on DR 314, the Lund 1 Runestone . The runic text indicates that the stone was raised as a memorial to a man named Ulfr. Besides the Ragnarök myth discussed above, it may be that the image of the wolf was inspired by this man's name, which in Old Norse means "Wolf." It has been pointed out that

68-416: 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 the stone itself, et cetera. The stones are identified with

85-531: 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 the time, the Period/Datering information in Rundata just gives

102-495: Is contemporary with FP dated to c. 1010- c. 1050 when it was succeeded by Pr3. This style is only somewhat younger than the previous style and it is dated to c. 1020- c. 1050, and it was also succeeded by Pr3. This style succeeded FP, Pr1 and Pr2 and is dated to c. 1050- c. 1080. This style appeared somewhat later c. 1060/1070 and lasted until c. 1100. This style was the last one before runestones stopped being raised. It appeared c. 1080/1100 and lasted until c. 1130. This style

119-510: 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 the web application Runor . The origin of the Rundata project was a 1986 database of Swedish inscriptions at Uppsala University for use in

136-477: Is unknown. It was first noted in 1624 when it was installed in the wall of a church, and rediscovered when the old church in Tullstorp was torn down in 1846. Before the historical significance of runestones was understood, they were often used as materials in the construction of buildings, walls, and roads. The stone first ended up in the wall surrounding the church yard, later it was moved to the current position inside

153-455: Is used by the Rundata project, although it does not attribute it to Gräslund's model. The style is common in western Södermanland and it is characterized by bordered crosses. Rundata The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base ( Swedish : Samnordisk runtextdatabas ) is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of transliterated runic inscriptions . The project's goal

170-494: The Viking Age . The early runestones were simple in design, but towards the end of the runestone era they became increasingly complex and made by travelling runemasters such as Öpir and Visäte . A categorization of the styles was developed by Anne-Sophie Gräslund in the 1990s. Her systematization is considered to have been a break-through and is today a standard. The styles are RAK, Fp, Pr1, Pr2, Pr3, Pr4 and Pr5, and they cover

187-832: The Old Norse phrase in the runic text, reistu kuml ("raised this monument"), is somewhat rare, but does appear on seven other runestones, Sm 27 in Berga, Ög 94 in Harstads, DR 13 in Skivum, DR 383 in Vester Marie, Sö 173 in Tystberga, U 735 in Långarnö (where the wording is reversed), and U 1066 in Åkerby. Locally the stone is known as the Tullstorpstenen . The first normalization is Old West Norse ,

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204-450: The Rundata project also includes the older runestones in this group, as well as younger ones. This style has no dragon heads and the ends of the runic bands are straight. This style is from the period c. 1010/1015 to c. 1040/1050, when Pr3 appeared. It is characterized by runic bands that end with animal heads seen from above. In the styles called Pr1, Pr2, Pr3, Pr4 and Pr5, the runic bands end with animal heads seen in profile. This style

221-542: 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, the project was no longer funded and work continued on

238-827: The church yard. It is dated from about 1000 AD. The ship and the wolf in the central image probably reflects the Ragnarök myth, which would make the wolf Fenrir and the ship Naglfar . The ship is shaped like an ancient galley with beakheads both fore and aft and is unlike any known Viking ship , suggesting from its archaic form that it is a symbolic ship associated with ritual. Other inscriptions with similar features which may depict ancient, symbolic ships include DR 77 in Hjermind, DR 119 in Spentrup, DR 258 in Bösarp, and DR 328 in Holmby. The wolf has

255-417: 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

272-519: The period 980-1130, which was the period during which most runestones were made. The styles Pr1 and Pr2 correspond to the Ringerike style , whereas Pr3, Pr4 and Pr5 belong to what is more widely known as the Urnes style . Below follows a brief presentation of the various styles by showing sample runestones according to Rundata 's annotation. RAK is the oldest style and covers the period 980-1015 AD, but

289-489: The second is Old East Norse . × ×       ᚴᛚᛁᛒᛁᛦ klibiʀ Kleppir/Glippir Klæppiʀ/Glippiʀ Kleppir/Glippir × ×       ᛅᚢᚴ auk ok ok and × ×       ᚨᛋᛅ osa Ása Asa Ása × ¶ × × ¶ ×       ᚱᛁᛋᚦᚢ risþu reistu resþu raised × ×   Runestone style The style or design of runestones varied during

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