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| Name | Snoldelev Stone |
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| Rundata ID | DR 248 |
| Country | Denmark |
| Region | Ramsø |
| City/Village | Currently Copenhagen, originally Snoldelev |
| Produced | Viking Age |
| Runemaster | unknown |
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Text - Native |
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| Gunwalds sten, sonaR Roalds, þulaR a Salhøgum. | |
| Text - English | |
| Gunnvaldr's stone, Hróaldr's son, reciter of Salhaugar | |
| Other resources | |
| Runestones - Runic alphabet Runology - Runestone styles |
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The 9th century runestone at Snoldelev, Ramsø, Denmark, is decorated with a design of three drinking horns interlocking as incomplete Borromean rings (similar to the Diane de Poitiers three crescents emblem), and a swastika. The triple horn motif has been compared to a triskelion, or to the valknut symbol. The runestone is housed at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The runestone shows an early version of the Younger Futhark. Like the late Elder Futhark Björketorp Runestone, it uses an a-rune 
which has the same form as the h-rune has in the long-branch version of the younger futhark. This a-rune is transliterated with capital A below. The Snoldelev runestone also retains the elder futhark haglaz rune (
) for the h-phoneme and this is represented by capital H in the transliteration below.
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Inscription
The inscription reads:
- kun'uAlts| |stAin ' sunaR ' ruHalts ' þulaR ' o salHauku(m)
This represents the Old Norse:
- Gunwalds sten, sonaR Roalds, þulaR a Salhøgum.
In English translation by the Rundata project:
- Gunnvaldr's stone, Hróaldr's son, reciter of Salhaugar
ÞulR signifies some office or rank, perhaps a priest or a skald, compare Old Norse þula "litany". The translation offered by the Rundata project suggests reciter. According to Peterson, Salhaugar refers to modern Salløv in the vicinity of the stone.
Germanic Neopaganism
The triple horn motif on the stone was adopted by the Asatru Folk Assembly as its official logo in October 2006.
Gallery
 Detail of swastika found on the stone. |
 Detail of the interlaced horns. |
 Snoldelev interlaced horns design (Illustration). |
Sources and external links
- http://home.no.net/ahrunes/de-rune-snoldelev.jpg
- http://viking.hgo.se/articles/Stefan/stefan4.html
- http://www.nordic-life.org/nmh/InEnglish/4eng.pdf
- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Village/7780/runicstones.html
- Nordisk runnamslexikon by Lena Peterson at the Swedish Institute for Linguistics and Heritage (Institutet för språk och folkminnen).
- Asatru Folk Assembly
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