I am in love. i found a new fave rune stone.
the art, it is so cute! the ship! the horse! what might be a house!
LOVE IT!
[sparlösastenen. from about the year 800. located in Sweden. picture source and wiki page]
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I am in love. i found a new fave rune stone.
the art, it is so cute! the ship! the horse! what might be a house!
LOVE IT!
[sparlösastenen. from about the year 800. located in Sweden. picture source and wiki page]
me paint person on horse!
love those horses. sadly, the text is so old people have a darn hard time understanding it today. but it was one good horsie on this rune stone at least.
Source
rune stone named möjbrostenen. located in Uppsala, Sweden. from about 400-550 CE. Picture by Bengt A Lundberg, via Riksantikvarieämbetet (=swedish heritage found). click here for link to its page in Riksantikvarieämbetet archive and the picture source.
a viking with a lil bit of an overinflated ego
the typical rune stone that talks about real people is a memorial stone over a dead loved one. and it is almost always clearly written out which relative/friend of the dead one paid for the rune stone.
fuck that! said Jarlabanke and ordered six rune stone to made about him while he was still alive. and instead about writing the typical message of hoping that the gods will take care of a dead loved ones soul, his stone is bragging about how rich he is.
so this is one of jarlebanke rune stones:
The text reads “Jarlabanke lät resa dessa stenar efter sig, medan han levde, och han gjorde denna bro för sin själ, och ensam ägde han hela Täby.”
which roughly translates to: “jarlebanke ordered this runes stones to be made. while he was still alive. and he built this bridge for his soul, cause he alone owned all of täby”
*falls over giggling* this is wonderful. being humble? nah. jarlabanke says: “I OWN THIS REGION!! I MAKE SIX STONES!!”
also täby is still called that and is today a rich suburb to stockholm. so he litterally sounds like täbys first rich fuck boy tm. a iron age fuck boy
[Iron age rune stone. Reference number U164. Name Jarlabankes bro. Registered with the national swedish heritage board]
keeping text short
the people of the norse iron age had a writing language, but they were not good at preserving their more casual day to day writing (if such things existed, but most likely it did)
the result of this is that a rune stone with about 800 words on it is the longest text we have from the iron age in sweden. the norse iron age writers sure were good at keeping texts short!
the rune stone with the most text of all rune stones in sweden:
[Name Rökstenen. Sweden. Written about 800 AD. the runes on the stones are playfully written in such a manner that several different meanings can be read depending of how, and in which direction, you read the text. Basically a norse iron age word puzzle. Picture by by Bengt Olof Åradsson via wikipedia]
WOLF FRIEND!!!
also a message about someone having build a bridge. but whatever. wolf!
[iron age rune stone. Sweden. registered by the national swedish heritage board. Photo by Magnus Källström]
you know what is nice? having jörmundgandr body has the borders for my writing!
(norse iron age runestone. sweden. found via historiska museets website. link to original article in source)
Dethleffs Club
I helgen har vi varit på Westerqwarn utanför Kolbäck tillsammans med Dethleffs Club of Sweden. Det var här vi träffade en del av medlemmarna för första gången för drygt ett år sedan. Det är riktigt roligt att äntligen kunna träffas igen, givetvis under coronasäkra former.
https://husbilsresorochaventyr.se/dethleffs-club-of-sweden/
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