Östergötland Rune Inscription 165 ( Ög 165) is a runestone located between Vårfrukyrkan ( en, the Church of Our Lady) and the town square in Skänninge. It is made of grey granite and is 230 cm tall. On the front of the runestone is the first part of the text, up until the word "suniʀ" (English: ''sons''). It continues on the left side until the end of the text. The signature of the carver can be found on the right side. The verse is a half

stanza In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian language, Italian ''stanza'' , "room") is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or Indentation (typesetting), indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme scheme, rhyme and ...

of fornyrðislag, a form of alliterate verse which was popular in Old Norse. The stone was discovered in recent times during repairs carried out in 1874. It had been used as a threshold at the north door. In '' Östergötlands runinskrifter'' (English: ''Östergötland's Runic Inscriptions'') (1911),

Erik Brate Erik Brate (13 June 1857 – 11 April 1924) was a Swedish linguist and runologist. Biography Brate was born in 1857 in Norberg, Västmanland County. In 1887 he married the Swedish painter Fanny Brate, née Ekbom (1861-1940). They had four ...

observed that the stone bears some resemblance to inscription Ög 87 near the Högby Church in

Göstring Hundred A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in northern Germanic countries and related colonies, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions. The equivalent term in Swedish is (in Uppland also ...

. He speculates that Torun was the widow of Toste and that the stone was taken from there when the Church of Our Lady was built.

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