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Submitted by CharcoalBurner89 on Thursday, 30 March 2023  Page Views: 1221

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Tullstorpstenen Alternative Name: DR 271
Country: Sweden Landskap: Skåne Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Trelleborg  Nearest Village: Tullstorp
Latitude: 55.409940N  Longitude: 13.466660E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
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1Awful
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Tullstorpstenen
Tullstorpstenen submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : March 26, 2023 (Vote or comment on this photo)
The runestone of Tullstorp stands in the churchyard in the village of the same name (belonging to Trelleborgs kommun), about 20 km east of Trelleborg in southern Scania in Sweden. It dates from around 960 to 980AD/CE, when the Viking king Harald Bluetooth tried to Christianize the Danes. During this period, it was common to place runestones near a church. Most of them were later built into the churches, like this one, built in the middle of the 12th century. In 1846 the medieval church was demolished and the stone in the eastern wall was found. A transliteration of the runes follows:

- Transliteration: × klibiʀ × auk × osa × / × risþu × kuml + / þusi × uftiʀ × ulf

- Transcription: Kleppir/Glippir ok Ása reistu kuml þessi eptir Ulf

- Translation (Swedish): Klibir och Åsa reste kummel dessa efter Ulf.

- Translation (English): Kleppir/Glippir and Ása raised this monument in memory of Ulfr.

On the first Sunday of Advent in 1848, today's church was consecrated on the same site as the old one. The stone was placed in the wall of the new church with its back into the wall and its face towards the churchyard. In the 1920s it was removed from the wall and placed in the churchyard as a memorial (Minneslund) at the end of the main passage. The stone broke during transport, but was put back together.
In the middle of the stone is 'The Great Beast' (Swedish: 'det stora djuret'). It has been interpreted in various ways, such as a wolf or an heraldic panther that 'often breathes fire through the mouth and nose, is horned, and has hind legs like a lion, while the front legs are like an eagle.' Most researchers, who commented on the interpretation of the 'Great Beast' did not get beyond the formal description and did not comment on the meaning.

On about 200 Swedish rune stones from the late Viking Age, figurative representations are carved next to the text in a snake band. Among them are about 100 representations of four-legged creatures. Until recently, research has mainly been devoted to the search for models of the 'Big Beast'.

A warship is also shown. The Vikings are known for their ships, which are depicted on many runestones. The ship on the runestone of Tullstorp is not a Viking ship, but an East Roman warship with a high board and ramming constructions at the bow and stern, roughly of the ship type of a dromon. An almost identical ship is depicted on a runestone in distant Östergötland.

The Tullstorp runestone is totally unique and comparable to the large runestone from Jelling in southern Jutland, which also dates from the time of Harald Bluetooth. Historical evidence tells us that the Tullstorp runestone is a memorial stone to the Christian importance of Ulf, who was a big man from the neighborhood and a bodyguard for the emperor of the old Eastern Roman Empire. The stonework is done in a way that is not common for Scanian-Danish runestones. The composition of the image is great compared to other South Scandinavian runestone carvings.
The information was taken from the German Wikipedia article and translated into English: Runenstein_von_Tullstorp
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Tullstorpstenen submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : Closeup of 'The Great Beast' March 26, 2023 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tullstorpstenen submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : Closeup of the ship. March 26, 2023 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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