Tryggevælde Runestone, designated as DR 230 under

Rundata The Scandinavian Runic-text Database () is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of transliterated runic inscriptions. The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way for future resea ...

, is a runestone housed in the

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, in

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. It is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, and is dated to about 900 CE.

Description

In 1555, the runestone was moved from a barrow to the Tryggevælde estate on

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. It came to Copenhagen in 1810. There are several holes on the runestone, but no one knows why. Ragnhild, who raised the runestone, also had

Glavendrup stone The Glavendrup stone, designated as DR 209 by Rundata, is a runestone on the island of Funen in Denmark and dates from the early 10th century. It contains Denmark's longest runic inscription and ends in a curse. Description The runestone forms ...

(DR 209) made after another husband named Alle. That runestone is located at a barrow and a stone ship in Glavendrup on the island of

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. Both the Glavendrup and Tryggevælde runestones were made by the same runemaster, Sote. The inscription ends with a curse against anyone who would destroy or move the runestone that is similar to the ones found on the Glavendrup stone the Sønder Vinge runestone 2 and the Glemminge stone and the Saleby Runestone in Sweden. There is some disagreement regarding the translation of one of the words in these curses, /, which has been translated as 'wretch,' 'outcast,' or 'warlock.' ''Warlock'' is the translation accepted by Rundata. However, the use of ''warlock'' is not that the destroyer would gain any magical powers, but be considered to be unnatural and a social outcast. The concept that being a warlock or sorcerer was an evil perversion predated the conversion of

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. This inscription is the first mention of the Old Scandinavian ship type skeið.

Inscription

The lines: # Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters # Transcription into standardized Old Norse # Transcription into standardized Old Danish

References

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