Snoldelev Stone
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| Name: | Snoldelev Stone |
| Rundata ID: | DR 248 |
| Country: | Denmark |
| Region: | Ramsø |
| City/Village: | Currently Copenhagen, originally Snoldelev |
| Produced: | Viking Age |
| Runemaster: | unknown |
| Text - Native: | |
| Gunwalds sten, sonaR Roalds, þulaR a Salhøgum. | |
| Text - English: | |
| the stone of Gunvaldr, the son of Runaldr, thul on the Sal-howes | |
| Other resources: | |
| Rune stones - Runic alphabet - Runology - Runestone styles | |
The Viking Age (Younger Futhark) 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 "heart of Hrungnir" (Valknut) symbol. 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.
The stone is now on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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. |
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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