Gårdstånga runestone DR 331 is a

runestone A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock. The tradition began in the 4th century and lasted into the 12th century, but most of the runestones da ...

located at ''Runstenshögen'' ("the runestone mound") in Lundagård, in

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

. The stone was discovered in 1867 in the wall of

Gårdstånga Gårdstånga is a locality situated in Eslöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 343 inhabitants in 2010. Route E66 ran straight through the village until 1984 when the road routed was outside the community. Gårdstånga is an ancient comm ...

church. It was sent in 1868 to Lund together with runestone DR 330 discovered at the same time. The last sign in the inscription is not a rune, but it has been interpreted as

Thor's Hammer Thor (; from non, Þórr ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing, and ...

, and in that case it was a pagan manifestation against the newly arrived Christian faith. Other surviving runestones or inscriptions depicting Thor's hammer include runestones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 86 in Åby, Sö 111 in Stenkvista, Vg 113 in Lärkegapet, Öl 1 in Karlevi, DR 26 in Laeborg, DR 48 in Hanning, and DR 120 in Spentrup.

Inscription

Below follows a presentation of the runestones based on the

Rundata The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base ( sv, Samnordisk runtextdatabas) is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of runic inscriptions. The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way f ...

project. The transcriptions into Old Norse are in the Swedish and Danish dialect to facilitate comparison with the inscriptions, while the English translation provided by

gives the names in the de facto standard dialect (the Icelandic and Norwegian dialect): Latin transliteration: :asur · sati × stina × þisi : iftiR ¶ tuba: ?
Old Norse transcription: :''Assur satti stena þæssi æftiR Tobba (?).'' English translation: :"Ôzurr placed these stones in memory of Tobbi"

References

Sources

*Enoksen, Lars-Magnar, ''Skånska runstenar'' (Lund 1999) s.90 f. *

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