Krogsta Runestone

The Krogsta Runestone is a runestone designated as U 1125 in the Rundata catalog. The stone is located in Krogsta near , in Uppsala Municipality, Sweden, in the historic province of Uppland. It was first described by Johannes Bureus in 1594.

Stone The runestone is granite, tall, and dated to 549–725.U 1125, Scandinavian Runic-text Database, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University. Retrieved 15 April 2022. . Four fragments presumed to be associated with the stone surround it.L1939:5710 , Fornsök database, Swedish National Heritage Board. Retrieved 15 April 2022. . It is located in a former cemetery and was described by Johannes Bureus in 1594 and by in his Monumenta Uplandica in the mid-17th century.

Inscription and decoration Alongside a drawing of a man with outstretched hands, it bears an Elder Futhark inscription, reading mwsïeij (uninterpretable). On the right face is an additional sïainaz, probably for Proto-Norse stainaz "stone". The inscription has been interpreted as a "spelling lesson", distinguishing vocalic and consonantal forms for the semi-vowels j and w, and as magical.MacLeod, Mindy and Bernard Mees (2006). Runic Amulets and Magic Objects. Woodbridge: Boydell, , p. 110 .

The drawing has been described as "naively formed"; the man's gesture of upraised arms with fingers outspread has been interpreted as indicating prayer and as warding off danger, and related to figures on bronze horse mounts from the cemetery at Marchélepot and runestone U Fv1946;258 at in Täby Municipality, which is dated to c. 1000.Wessén, Elias and Sven B.F. Jansson (1953–58). Upplands runinskrifter del 4 (Sveriges runinskrifter volume 9). Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, pp. 477–510. . The interpretation of the gesture as warding is cited to Nordén, Arthur (1934–36). "Från Kivik till Eggjum", Fornvannen ; and Rosenfeld, Hans-Friedrich (1955). "Der Runenstein von Krogsta und das nord- und westgermanische Demonstrativpronomen 'dieser'". Forschungen und Fortschritte 29:172–78 .

Krogsta Runestone

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