#viking rune stones

[gifts-of-heimdall-runes]

Rune Stone pictures were originally posted by @forndom.

This mood board collection was assembled by @gifts-of-heimdall-runes.

[er-cryptid]

The Rune Hall

National Museum of Denmark

[lady-0f-the-wood]

[fima11]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦...

GoW (2018) and GoW: Ragnarök kinda impressed me so here I am crossing my hyperfixations. Again.

I was gifted with ability to draw, thus I can visualise whatever visits my mind🎉

(thinking about Taiju with beard...thinking...)

[blogtib]

[skyggsja]

⚔️ bork vikingehavn, danmark

today we visited this smol open air museum with some viking houses and boats. it was small but really beautiful!!

[hikinglikeaviking]

Runestone in Ribe viking village

Inscription with translation:

Véstæinn satti stæin þannsi aft Ásvið, sun sinn, harða góðan dræng. SaR druknaði utan af Norvegi

Vestein raised this stone in memory of Asvid, his son, a very good boy, who drowned on the way back from Norway.

DaniR í Hvitingi gærði arðrfaraR í Ljósum sandi

The Danes in Hviding made furrows in the pale sand

DaniR í Rípu gørva slóð þessa lìfandi

The Danes in Ribe make these tracks come alive

Karen ok Bjarni létu gørva kumbl at mikit afl ok líf donum

Karen and Bjarne had this monument made to give the Danes power and life

EirikR rauði risti

Eric (the) Red carved

Text from: ribevikingecenter.dk

[merovingian-marvels]

Swastika/Hakenkreuz/Sun wheel/Wān/Tetraskelion

Perhaps one of the most controversial symbols in Europe all the while one of the most important symbols of Buddhism is the Swastika.

The Swastika can be found all over the world through time. From Iranian prehistory to Scandinavian Air Forces in the 1930’s, Native American symbolism and Indian (Jain) religious virtue.

Generally associated with the sun because of the widespread use of the Sanskrit word Swastika (conduct to wellbeing) and is literally used as a symbol for the Sun (Surya)

The orientation and color of the swastika, along with additional decoration of the cross itself is reflective of the people who used it and the meaning they attested to it.

The symbol was used since prehistory, corresponding to mankind’s love for geometry. It is believed that the European use for the symbol is to portray the sun’s pathway across the sky.

Swastika’s have been found on Runic Stones, petroglyphs, brooches, woven fabrics, pendants, etc.

Many researchers have their own individual interpretations for the use of Swastika’s in Europe as they are the least clear in meaning than the rest of the world’s. An example of this is not just the visualization of the passing of the sun, but a stylized image of lightning/a thunderstorm, thus referring to Thor.

Image: Snoldelev Stone (DR 248) (detail)

Found in: Snoldelev, Ramsø - Denmark. 9th Century A.D.

[inhalingmagic]

[grimmborg-in-the-bog]

Rune Stone U489 in Uppland, Sweden

“khulu ' lit ' kira ' bro fr ant ' kilaua ' totur ' sin ' uk sum ' ati ' ulfr ' ybiʀ risti”/eng: “Gullaug(?) had the bridge made for the spirit of Gillaug, her daughter, and whom Ulfr owned (i.e. was married to). Öpir carved”

[kinderschreckfigur]

babe wake up new rune stone just dropped

[er-cryptid]

Sandby Runestone

Solve raised... in Spalklose in memory of Suser, [his] father [and] made this bridge in memory of Thorgisl, his brother

11th century AD

- Danish History Museum, Copenhagen, Rune Hall

[crepuscularpete]

[blogtib]

[skyggsja]

Real Runestones from the Viking age ♡

📍Jelling, Danmark

[tuviapollack]

The Frösö Runestone in Jämtland, Sweden

Yes, it was a family vacation. But I’m nerdy enough to want to film myself next to an ancient Viking rune stone – the northernmost in Europe. And explain why it’s really about Middle Eastern influence.