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Submitted by Meginring on Sunday, 18 February 2007  Page Views: 6688

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Rökstenen Alternative Name: Ög 136
Country: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 15.639 km away from the location you searched for.

Landskap: Östergötland Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Ödeshög  Nearest Village: Rök
Latitude: 58.295020N  Longitude: 14.775040E
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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 24th Aug 2023 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Because of the size and the length of the written rune text, it is probably the most impressive rune stone I have seen so far. A really detailed information center is just near the stone by the south of the church.

Oskmey visited on 26th Apr 2019 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 5

Boeddel visited on 1st Jul 1997 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4

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Rökstenen
Rökstenen submitted by Meginring : The four metric tonne Rökstenen is decorated with some 800 runes, carved on all sides and also on the top. It is the longest and most intricate runic inscription known in the world today. Photo by Jan Hellström (Vote or comment on this photo)
In the ninth century, Varin wrote a tribute in honour of his dead son. The four metric tonne Rökstenen is decorated with some 800 runes, carved on all sides and also on the top. It is the longest and most intricate runic inscription known in the world today. The experts can certainly read and translate the message, but the interpretations are still very much intriguing.

Rökstenen has been placed under a pyramid-shaped wooden roof outside Rök kyrka (church), where it stands some 2,5 meters above ground and more than a meter below ground. There is also a very informative miniature open-air museum that never closes, which makes for an excellent break if you are travelling along the E4 through Östergötland.

If you happen to be in Stockholm and cannot make it to Rök, just go to Bergshamra underground station where Rökstenen has been elaborately reproduced on the northbound platform wall.
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Rökstenen submitted by Bjorn : In the background is the church inside which the rune stone was found. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Vikings erected a runestone out of fear of a climate catastrophe by davidmorgan on Sunday, 19 January 2020
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Several passages on the Rök stone – the world’s most famous Viking Age runic monument – suggest that the inscription is about battles and for over a hundred years, researchers have been trying to connect the inscription with heroic deeds in war. Now, thanks to an interdisciplinary research project, a new interpretation of the inscription is being presented. The study shows that the inscription deals with an entirely different kind of battle: the conflict between light and darkness, warmth and cold, life and death.

The Rök runestone, erected in Östergötland around 800 CE, is the world's most famous runestone from the Viking Age, but has also proven to be one of the most difficult to interpret. This new interpretation is based on a collaboration between researchers from several disciplines and universities.

“The key to unlocking the inscription was the interdisciplinary approach. Without these collaborations between textual analysis, archaeology, history of religions and runology, it would have been impossible to solve the riddles of the Rök runestone,” says Per Holmberg, professor in Swedish at the University of Gothenburg, who led the study.

Read more at University of Gothenburg.
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Re: Rökstenen by Runemage on Monday, 10 May 2010
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      • The following is one translation of the text: most researchers agree on how the runes shall be deciphered, but the interpretation of the text and the meaning is still a subject of debate. The first part is written in ljóðaháttr meter, and the part about Theoderic is written in the fornyrðislag meter. (See alliterative verse for an explanation of these meters.)
        The stone is housed under a roof and is located near the church in which it was discovered.

        In memory of Vémóðr/Vámóðr stand these runes.
        And Varinn coloured them, the father,
        in memory of his dead son.

        I say the folktale / to the young men, which the two war-booties were, which twelve times were taken as war-booty, both together from various men.

        I say this second, who nine generations ago lost his life with the Hreidgoths; and died with them for his guilt.

        Þjóðríkr the bold,
        chief of sea-warriors,
        ruled over the shores of the Hreiðsea.
        Now he sits armed
        on his Goth(ic horse),
        his shield strapped,
        the prince of the Mærings.

        I say this the twelfth, where the horse of Gunnr sees fodder on the battlefield, where twenty kings lie.

        This I say as thirteenth, which twenty kings sat on Sjólund for four winters, of four names, born of four brothers: five Valkis, sons of Hráðulfr, five Hreiðulfrs, sons of Rugulfr, five Háisl, sons of Hôrðr, five Gunnmundrs/Kynmundrs, sons of Bjôrn.

        Now I say the tales in full. Someone ...

        I say the folktale / to the young men, which of the line of Ingold was repaid by a wife's sacrifice.

        I say the folktale / to the young men, to whom is born a relative, to a valiant man. It is Vélinn. He could crush a giant. It is Vélinn ... [Nit]

        I say the folktale / to the young men: Þórr. Sibbi of Vé, nonagenarian, begot (a son).

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