Hassmyra Runestone
The Odendisa Runestone (), sometimes called the Hassmyra Runestone, is a Viking Age runestone erected at Hassmyra, Västmanland, Sweden. It is exceptional in that it has a metric inscription, and that it commemorates a woman. The stone was first described in the 1660s. According to tradition, a farmer discovered the runestone while he ploughed the field. A few years later it cracked in half. It was mended in 1900 and raised anew where it is now. Description The inscription is read as: The runic text carved on the serpent of the Odendisa Runestone contains a poem in fornyrðislag and is one of few runestones raised for a woman, and the only one in Sweden with a verse commemorating a woman. The metrical part is interpreted as: :''Kumbʀ hifrøya / til Hasvimyra / æigi bætri / þan byi raðr'' :"To Hassmyra will come no better housewife, who arranges the estate." The housewife is thus remembered as the one "arranging the estate", as was usual in medieval Scandinavian soc ...
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