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Inauguration in front of
Vikingaliv September 2, 2017 |
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| After unveiling, I describe the rune
stone's ornamentation and runic inscription for visitors.
With rounded front, the rune stone can be seen from both
sides along the walkway in front of the museum. |
From the entrance you can see the
smaller dragon that holding a woman's head in the claws. |
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The ornamentation
in detail |
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| A horror mask with mustache and
beard that protects the runestone from being
damaged. In Södermanland there are only a few masks
on rune stones, in Denmark a little more. Now there
is another mask, here at Djurgården in Stockholm. |
At the bottom of the center is the
large snake's head and tail. Here, the two little
snakes have knotted around the snake with their
tails, their heads are higher up, under the beard of
the mask. (See the picture on the left) |
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| The man and the woman dangling in
the claws of the dragons are a detail from the
runestone U 629. Look carefully and try to figure
out what the 1000-year-old motif shows, yet no one
knows the answer, but it can belong to an old
saga/story. |
The original motif on the man and
the woman and the claws of the dragons is bigger and
less well-carved. When I cut these small and fragile
details, I was very careful, a little mistake and
the picture could be destroyed forever. I succeeded,
but it took days to carve. |
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