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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Rimsø-sten Alternative Name: DR 114 / DK MJy 41Country: Denmark
NOTE: This site is 2.386 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Midtjylland Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Grenaa Nearest Village: Rimsø
Latitude: 56.478720N Longitude: 10.795000E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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- Translitteration: Side I.: þuriR : bruþiR : ainraþa / Side II.: rai=sþi : stain : þąnsi : uft : muþur : sina : auk : / Side III.: ... ku... Side B ... -auþi : sam : uarst : maki
- Transcription: ÞōriR, brōðiR Æinrāða, ræisþi stæin þannsi øft mōður sīna ok ... ... ... [d]auði(?) sæm(?) værst(?) mǣgi(?)
- Translation (Danish): Thore, Enrådes broder, rejste denne sten efter sin moder og ... ... [moderens] død er værst for sønnen.
- Translation (English): Thore, Enråde's brother, raised this stone after his mother and ... ... [the mother's] death is worst for the son.
The first mention of the Rimsø rune stone goes back to Lauritz Schebye Vedel Simonsen (*1780 - †1858 - Danish historian). In October 1814, in a petition to the Antiquities Commission, he stated: "... that he had found a narrow slab in County Scheel, which was 3 cubits long and 1/4 thick and walled in the Rimsø church wall. The missing parts would probably still be sitting here and there in the wall, but could not be discovered. True runes can be read on the edge of the slab, but the bottom piece has been hewn away and patched with chalk, so that the meaning of the inscription is meaningless” (Today kept in: Antikvarisk - Topografisk Arkiv, National Museum Copenhagen).
In 1875 the huge stone was removed at the request of court hunter Benzon, which he had promised Rasmus Henrik Kruses when he visited. It was now laid outside the church until it was erected on the burial mound just south of the church in 1889.
When the church was built, the large stone was probably not brought from far away, which is probably why it originally stood at the foot of the hill.
Whether there is a connection between the rune stone and the burial mound can only be clarified by examining the mound, but this has (still) not been done.
The rune stone is dated to the period around 900-1020. The stone has the following measures: height 226 centimeters, width 120 centimeters, depth 12-26 centimeters
A wonderful treatise on the circumstances of the find in German and several historical pictures can be found here: http://www.wikinger-in-daenemark.de/
Fortidsminder:https://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/219245/
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