Gimo Runestone

**The Gimo Runestone**
The Gimo Runestone
	The runestone in 2008
Created	11th century
Discovered	1594; Gimodam, Gimo, Skäfthammars parish, Uppland, Sweden; 60°10′54.83″N 18°10′9.87″E / 60.1818972°N 18.1694083°E
Discovered by	Johannes Bureus
Present location	Uppland, Sweden
Rundata ID	U 1132
Text – Native
	Old Norse: Liutr ok Þrotti ok Auðviðr ok þæiʀ letu retta æftiʀ faður sinn Biorn [ok] Fasthæiði, moður sina. Auðmundr risti r[u]naʀ.
Translation
	English: "Ljut and Trotte and Ödvid they let raise (the stone) after their father Björn and Fasthed their mother. Ömund carved the runes."

Rune inscription U 1132, or the Gimo stone, is a rune stone in Gimo, Skäfthammar parish and Östhammar municipality in Uppland. The rune stone now stands at Gimo damm about two kilometers northwest of Skäfthammar's church.

The stone

During a survey by Johannes Bureus in 1594, the stone was found by a bridge over Gimån, the stream between Gimo dam and Olandsån and about 500 meters north of Skäfthammar's church. In the 19th century, the stone was placed in Gimo's cemetery gate, but was later moved to its current location at Gimo Damm.^[1]^[2]

The size of the stone is 2.4 m in height and 0.8 m in width at the base, as well as 1.5 m wide at the top, 0.35 m thick at the northwestern edge and 0.15 m thick at the southern edge. The material is gray, coarse-grained granite. The carver is Ömund.^[1]

The inscription

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liutr

Liutr

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uk

ok

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þroti

Þrotti

×

uk

ok

×

oþuiþr

Auðviðr

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uk

ok

×

þaiʀ

þæiʀ

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litu

letu

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rita

retta

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i(f)itʀ

æftiʀ

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[faþur

faður

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sin

sinn

:

baorn

Biorn

×

fasti]þi

[ok]

:

moþur

Fasthæiði,

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sin

moður

:

oþmontr

sina.

×

risti

Auðmundr

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r..

risti

.naʀ

·

r[u]naʀ.

"Ljut and Trotte and Ödvid they let raise (the stone) after their father Björn and Fasthed their mother. Ömund carved the runes."

The stone is erected after the parents by their three sons. The name Liutr is unusual and is further found only on U 1016. Þrotti is coated on runestones Sö 115, Sö 200, U 17 and U 485. oþuiþr probably renders a male name Auðviðr; the diphthong Au is single-signed in both names oþuiþr' and oþmontr - Auðmundr, which can be compared to the spelling ooþbiarn for Auðbiorn ' on U 1062. The name Auðviðr is very unusual, it is not recorded in the runic inscriptions and was rare in the Middle Ages. The father's name was Biörn. The mother's name in accusative form is Fasthæiði. The female name Fasthœiðr is only known from U 1132, but names compounded with the adjective stem fast- are very common.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "RAÄ-nummer Skäfthammar 17:1". Raa.se. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
^ Fornminnesregistret: Skäfthammar 17:1
^ Elias Wessén, Sven B.F. Jansson, ed. (1953–1958). Sveriges runinskrifter. Bd 9, Upplands runinskrifter, del 4 (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm: KVHAA.

External links

Gimo hembygdsförening
"Uppland Runestone - U 1132". Kulturbilder.dk. 6 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-07-01.

[raa1-1] "RAÄ-nummer Skäfthammar 17:1". Raa.se. Retrieved 6 June 2013.

[fmis1-2] Fornminnesregistret: Skäfthammar 17:1

[sri1-3] Elias Wessén, Sven B.F. Jansson, ed. (1953–1958). Sveriges runinskrifter. Bd 9, Upplands runinskrifter, del 4 (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm: KVHAA.

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