Gårdstånga runestone DR 331 is a
runestone located at ''Runstenshögen'' ("the runestone mound") in
Lundagård, in
Lund.
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 co ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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.
*
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 ...
project
{{runestones
Runestones in Scania
Danish Runic Inscriptions