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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Kulisteinen Alternative Name: Kuli stone, N 449Country: Norway Fylke: Møre og Romsdal Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Smøla Nearest Village: Kuløy
Latitude: 63.299895N Longitude: 8.076858E
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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
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| 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 |
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| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The Kuli Stone is dated to the year 1034 AD and can be viewed in the medieval exhibition at the museum. A copy of the stone has been erected at Kuløy. In 1956 curator Aslak Liestøl noticed that the original stone had a runic inscription along the narrow edge. It reads "Tore and Hallvard erected this stone ..." — Tore og Hallvard reiste denne steinen ..., and "(for) twelve winters/years Christianity had been in Norway" — tolv vintre hadde kristendommen vært i Norge.
In the mid-1990s the inscription was subjected to laser scanning and microcartography in an attempt to arrive at a more sure reading. It was then suggested that the word translated "been" (vært) above should be read Old Norse um rétt, and that this could mean that Christianity had "supplied law and order" for twelve years. The runic stone would then have been propaganda for the new religion, Christianity. There are, however, serious paleographic and philological/linguistic problems with the new reading and interpretation.
It was first suggested by Nils Halan that the inscription refers to a national event, the establishment of the law which formally made Christianity the religion of Norway at the Moster thing in either 1022 or 1024 by King Olaf Haraldsson. The Kuli stone was later dated to 1034 since it was originally found adjacent to a Viking Age boardwalk dated dendrochronologically to that year, assuming the two are contemporaneous. Others have suggested that the inscription refers to the conquest of Norway in 995 by King Olaf Tryggvason and his forced conversions.
The transcription and translation shown at Wikipedia are as accepted in the Rundata database and see also the Vitenskapsmuseet i Trondheim (The Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, NTNU)
Note: Unique runestone is the oldest object yet added to UNESCO Memory of the World Programme [it sounds like they could do with some properly old artefacts!]
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