Vang stone

Vang stone
Rundata ID N 84
Country Norway
Region Oppland
City/Village Vang
Produced eleventh century
Runemaster Gása
Text – Native
Old Norse : Gása synir reistu stein þenna eptir Gunnar, bróðurson.
Text – English
Gasi's sons raised this stone in memory of Gunnarr, (their) nephew.
Other resources
Runestones – Runic alphabet
Runology – Runestone styles

Vang stone (Vangsteinen) listed as N 84 in Rundata is a runestone from the early eleventh century located at Vang in Oppland, Norway.[1] [2]

Description

The Vang stone was erected around 1000, during the transitional period from Paganism to Christianity in Norway. It was originally located in the traditional district of Valdres. It was situated outside a stave church at Vang. Vang stave church was dismantled and moved to Krummhübel, Germany in 1844. At that time, the runestone was moved to its current location, outside the Vang Church (Vang kirke). [3][4]

The stone is made of an irregular slab of slate. It is 2.15m tall, up to 1.25m wide and 8–13 cm thick. The artwork on the front of the stone is in Ringerike style, and depicts ribbons, leaves and a stylized animal, allegedly a lion.[5] Although thought to be a part of a stone portal, this idea is generally not supported. In contrast to other Viking Era runestones. The runic text is not integrated with the artwork to make a unified composition, but is carved along the edge of the stone.[5]

Inscription

A transliteration of the runic inscription into Latin characters is:

kosa : sunir : ristu : s(t)in : þinsi : af(t)ir : kunar : bruþur:sun[6]

References

  1. ↑ Vangsteinen (Olavsrosa)
  2. ↑ "Vangsteinen". Norsk kulturarv. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Vang kirke (Valdres) (Norske Kirkebygg)
  4. ↑ "Vangsteinen: Einer der schönsten Runensteine Skandinaviens". Norwegen Service. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  5. 1 2 Spurkland, Terje (2005). Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions. van der Hoek, Betsy (trans.). Boydell Press. pp. 91–93. ISBN 1-84383-186-4.
  6. ↑ Project Samnordisk Runtextdatabas Svensk - Rundata.

Other sources

  • Sawyer, Birgit (2003) The Viking-Age Rune-Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia (Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0199262212
  • Stocklund, Marie; et al., eds. (2006) Runes and Their Secrets: Studies in Runology (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press) ISBN 978-87-635-0627-4

Coordinates: 61°07′32″N 8°34′29″E / 61.12556°N 8.57472°E / 61.12556; 8.57472

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