Snoldelev Stone
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The Viking Age (Younger Futhark) runestone at Snoldelev, Ramsø, Denmark, dated to ca. 800, is decorated with a design of three drinking horns interlocking as incomplete Borromean rings (similar to the Diane de Poitiers three crescents emblem), and a swastika. The triple horn motif has been compared to a triskelion, or to the "heart of Hrungnir" (Valknut) symbol.
The inscription reads:
- kunualstain sunaR / ruhalts þular asalhauku[m]
- "the stone of Gunvaldr, the son of Runaldr, thul on the Sal-howes"
External links
- http://home.no.net/ahrunes/de-rune-snoldelev.jpg
- http://viking.hgo.se/articles/Stefan/stefan4.html
- http://www.nordic-life.org/nmh/InEnglish/4eng.pdf
- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Village/7780/runicstones.html
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