The Jelling Stone (Reproduction by the National Museum of Denmark)
Runic inscription; reconstruction
A press image released by the National Museum of Denmark to promote the Viking Exhibition (2013), featuring a brightly painted replica of the Jelling Stone.
The National Museum of Denmark
The Jelling Stone (DR 42)
The National Museum of Denmark
Wikimedia Commons
2013
Administrator
(c) The National Museum of Denmark
The Jelling Stone (DR 42)
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Photograph
Rundata DR 42
Denmark
Runic donation box, Orkneyinga saga Centre, Orphir
Runes; reception; modern; Viking; Orkney, Orphir
A donation box in the Orkneyinga saga Centre in Orphir, Orkney, featuring an open-mouthed face (viking?) with accompanying runic inscription.
'The Orkneyinga saga Centre, Orphir, tells the story of the Norse Earls of Orkney using The Orkneyinga Saga and an audiovisual display. The Round Church and the ruins of Norse buildings, believed to be the Earls Bu, are close by. Open: daily, dawn till dusk."
[Text from ORKNEY MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE leaflet]
Orkneyinga saga Centre
http://www.orkneyproject.org/
The Orkney Project / University of Oxford
2013
The Orkney Project
Public domain
www.orkneyproject.org
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English
Image
Modern
Orkney
The Kensington Runestone
Photograph - Archaeological Remains
The Kensington runestone is one of several runestones found in the American Midwest. Olof Ohman claimed to have discovered it in 1898 near Kensington, Minnesota. The stone describes an expedition by Swedes and Norwegians to the area in the fourteenth century.
Scholarly opinion holds that it is a fake, and perhaps an attempt by recent Scandinavian immigrants to claim acceptance in the area by virtue of their ancestry. However, there are still a small number of people who seek to prove its authenticity.
Louise Lund Larsen
George Flom, <em>The Kensington Rune-Stone : an address</em> (Illinois State Historical Society, 1910)
Illinois State Historical Society
1910
Administrator
Public Domain
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English, Swedish
StillImage
19th century, modern, USA, Minnesota, Kensington, Solem, Douglas County
Tjängvide (I) Picture Stone from Gotland
Photograph - Archaeological Remains
Tjängvide I (G 110) dates from c.700-800 AD and is now on display at <a href="http://historiska.se/home/" target="_blank">Statens historiska museum</a> in Stockholm. It is one of several Gotlandic picture stones with similar motifs; a ship under sail below and a scene that appears to be a welcome to Valhalla above. In the upper scene, a man rides the eight-legged horse Sleipnir. A woman appears to be offering him a horn to drink, while figures fight in the background, in front of a hall that may be Valhalla. An alternative interpretation is that it is Sigurd riding his horse Grani, itself an offspring of Sleipnir, and being greeted by Brynhildr or Grímhildr. The story of the Volsungs was very popular in Scandinavia in the Viking Age and features on other picture stones and runestones.<br /><br />There are two bands of runes on this stone. One on the left of the upper image is a rune row. The other, on the right side of the ship image reads:<br />
<ul>
<li><strong>B ... (r)aisti stainin aft iurulf bruþur sin ÷ sikuif(i)r(t)(u)(a)(n)k(i)sifil</strong></li>
<li>B ... raised the stone in memory of Hjôrulfr/Jórulfr, his brother ...</li>
</ul>
Berig
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons
01/03/2008
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(c) Berig (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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English, Old Norse
PhysicalObject
700 AD, 800 AD, Viking Age, Sweden, Gotland
Photo of Maeshowe (Orkhaugr) in Orkney
Maeshowe - runes
Maeshowe is a neolithic burial mound and chambered cairn on the mainland island of Orkney. Its connection to the Vikings (or Norse in Orkney) is the fact that the chamber was looted and used as a shelter on various occasions, as attested by the extensive runic graffiti and by Orkneyinga saga chapter 93, which refers to Norse crusaders who sheltered in Orkahaugr during a storm.
Michael Hart
www.orkneyproject.org
Orkney Viking Heritage Project
2012
Orkney Viking Heritage Project
(c) Orkney Project / Michael Hart
www.orkneyproject.org
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Still Image
Orkney
Neolithic
Twelfth-century
Illustration of short-twigged (Norwegisn-Swedish) runes
Illustration of runes
An illustration of the typical forms of the so-called 'short-twigged' or Norwegian-Swedish runes.
Annemari Ferreira
The Vikings in Munster, p. 18.
Languages, Myths and Finds Project
2014
Annemari Ferreira
(c) Annemari Ferreira. Public domain.
<em>The Vikings in Munster</em>
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Still Image
ISBN 9780853583004
Viking Age
The Hørning rune stone at Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
Photograph - Rune stone
The Hørning stone (DR 58) was carved by an emancipated slave in honour of his master. The inscription reads:<br /> tuki : smiþr : riþ : stin : ift ¶ þurkisl : kuþmutaR : sun : is : hanum ¶ kaf : kul : uk : frialsi<br />Toki Smiþr resþi sten æft Þorgisl GuþmundaR sun, æs hanum gaf gul(?) ok frælsi.<br /> Tóki Smiðr reisti stein ept Þorgísl Guðmundar son, er honum gaf gull(?) ok frelsi.<br />(Text taken from <a href="http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm/?languageId=1" target="_blank">Samnordisk runtextdatabas</a>)<br /><br />This translates as:<br />Toki the smith raised this stone in memory of Thorgisl, son of Gudmund, who gave him gold(?) and freedom.
RDale
RDale
RDale
10/11/2010
Roughage
(c) R. Dale, CC by SA
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English, Danish, Old Norse
StillImage
DR 58
Denmark, Viking Age
Sigurd on the Ramsund rock carving
Runic inscription
This is Sigurd pictured slaying the dragon Fáfnir on the Ramsund carving (Sö 101), carved in the mid eleventh century. The runic inscription which the scenes from the legend accompany refers to a certain Sigriðr raising a bridge in memory of her husband, rather than referring directly to the legend of the dragon-slayer.
Administrator
Ramsund carving (Sö 101)
2010
Administrator
Public domain
<a href="http://kulturarvsdata.se/raa/fmi/html/10033800390001" target="_blank">http://kulturarvsdata.se/raa/fmi/html/10033800390001</a>
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Old Norse
Sö 101
http://kulturarvsdata.se/raa/fmi/html/10033800390001
Sweden
Viking Age
Article 'Runer i Hagia Sofia i Istanbul' by James E. Knirk
Graffiti - Runes
Discussion of the runes in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul from Nytt om runer 14 (1999), 26-27
James E Knirk
UiO - Museum of Cultural History
UiO - Museum of Cultural History
1999
R. Dale
James E Knirk
UiO - Museum of Cultural History
Website
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Website
Viking Age, Istanbul, Miklagard, Constantinople, Turkey
Afskærmning af runestenene i Jelling
Protection of Jelling Runestones
Essay
Project website describing the protection of the Jelling runestones
NOBEL arkitekter a/s
http://www.nobel.dk/nav.php/projekter/4/648/1
NOBEL arkitekter a/s
2010
Administrator
NOBEL arkiteketer a/s
Website
Danish
Website
Viking Age, Denmark, Jelling
Runic inscription from Heddal stave church dating from the 13th century.
Photograph - Runes
Runes
This runic inscription can be found in the covered exterior passage, on the fourth wall-board to the right of the south portal. The inscription consists of five runes, two of which, according to Professor Magnus Olsen, may be disregarded as mere decorative flourish. What remains are the runes for MRN - which can be interpreted to mean: Maria 1242. The church was consecrated on the 25th of October, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
10/2012
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
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Old Norse
StillImage
N 147
13th Century, Heddal, Norway, Medieval
Runic inscription from St. Olaf's church in Bø, Norway.
Graffiti
Runic graffiti on wood from St. Olaf's church in Bø, Norway. (Unspecified date)
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
10/2012
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
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Old Norse
StillImage
N 146
Bø, Norway, Medieval
Runic inscriptions from St. Olaf's church in Bø, Norway.
Photograph - Runes
Runes
Graffiti
Runic graffiti on wood from St. Olaf's church in Bø, Norway. (1150-1200 AD)
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
10/2012
Sofie Vanherpen
Sofie Vanherpen
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Old Norse
StillImage
N A104
Bø, Norway, 12th century
Photos of Rune stone DR 41 at Jelling
Runic inscription
Photo of the older of the two Jelling stones, raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra. The English translation on the Samnordisk runtextdatabas reads "King Gormr made this monument in memory of Thyrvé, his wife, Denmark's adornment."
Gerard (Panda) Terry
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2012
Gerard (Panda) Terry.
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public Domain.
<a href="http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/116756" target="_blank">http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/116756</a>
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Still Image
DR 41
http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/116756
Denmark
Viking Age
Jelling
Photo of Side A of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling
Runic inscription
Photo of the younger of the two Jelling rune stones (DR 42), raised by Harald Bluetooth (who died in 985 or 986) in memory of his father and mother, and his own legacy.
The English translation of the whole inscription on the Samnordisk runtextdatabas reads:
"King Haraldr ordered this monument made in memory of Gormr, his father, and in memory of Thyrvé, his mother; that Haraldr who won for himself all of Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian."
Gerard (Panda) Terry
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2012
Gerard (Panda) Terry
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public Domain.
<a href="http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448" target="_blank">http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448</a>
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Old Norse
Still Image
DR 42
http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448
Denmark
Jelling
Viking Age
Reconstruction of Side A of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling
Runic inscription reconstruction
A reconstruction of Side A of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling. See item #278 for a photo of the original
Gerard (Panda) Terry
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2012
Gerard (Panda) Terry
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public Domain.
Item #278
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Still Image
DR 42
Viking Age
Denmark
Jelling
Photo of Side B of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling
Runic inscription
Photo of Side B of the younger of the two Jelling rune stones (DR 42), raised by Harald Bluetooth (who died in 985 or 986) in memory of his father and mother, and his own legacy.
The English translation of the whole inscription on the Samnordisk runtextdatabas reads:
"King Haraldr ordered this monument made in memory of Gormr, his father, and in memory of Thyrvé, his mother; that Haraldr who won for himself all of Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian."
Gerard (Panda) Terry
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2012
Gerard (Panda) Terry
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public Domain.
<a href="http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448" target="_blank">http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448</a>
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Old Norse
Still Image
DR 42
http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448
Denmark
Viking Age
Jelling
Reconstruction of Side B of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling
Runic inscription reconstruction
A reconstruction of Side B of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling. See item #280 for a photo of the original
Gerard (Panda) Terry
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2012
Gerard (Panda) Terry
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public Domain.
Item #280
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Old Norse
Still Image
DR 42
Denmark
Viking Age
Jelling
Photo of Side C of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling
Runic inscription
Photo of Side C of the younger of the two Jelling rune stones (DR 42), raised by Harald Bluetooth (who died in 985 or 986) in memory of his father and mother, and his own legacy.
The English translation of the whole inscription on the Samnordisk runtextdatabas reads:
"King Haraldr ordered this monument made in memory of Gormr, his father, and in memory of Thyrvé, his mother; that Haraldr who won for himself all of Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian."
Gerard (Panda) Terry
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2012
Gerard (Panda) Terry
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public Domain.
<a href="http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448" target="_blank">http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448</a>
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Old Norse
Still Image
DR 42
http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/188448
Denmark
Viking Age
Jelling
Reconstruction of Side C of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling
Runic inscription reconstruction
A reconstruction of Side C of Rune stone DR 42 at Jelling. See item #280 for a photo of the original
Gerard (Panda) Terry
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2012
Gerard (Panda) Terry
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public Domain.
Item #282
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Old Norse
Still Image
DR 42
Denmark
Viking Age
Jelling