I am in love. i found a new fave rune stone.

the art, it is so cute! the ship! the horse! what might be a house!

LOVE IT!

me paint person on horse!

love those horses. sadly, the text is so old people have a darn hard time understanding it today. but it was one good horsie on this rune stone at least.

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the typical rune stone that talks about real people is a memorial stone over a dead loved one. and it is almost always clearly written out which relative/friend of the dead one paid for the rune stone. 

fuck that! said Jarlabanke and ordered six rune stone to made about him while he was still alive. and instead about writing the typical message of hoping that the gods will take care of a dead loved ones soul, his stone is bragging about how rich he is.

so this is one of jarlebanke rune stones:

The text reads “Jarlabanke lät resa dessa stenar efter sig, medan han levde, och han gjorde denna bro för sin själ, och ensam ägde han hela Täby.”

which roughly translates to: “jarlebanke ordered this runes stones to be made. while he was still alive. and he built this bridge for his soul, cause he alone owned all of täby”

*falls over giggling* this is wonderful. being humble? nah. jarlabanke says: “I OWN THIS REGION!! I MAKE SIX STONES!!”

also täby is still called that and is today a rich suburb to stockholm. so he litterally sounds like täbys first rich fuck boy tm. a iron age fuck boy

the people of the norse iron age had a writing language, but they were not good at preserving their more casual day to day writing (if such things existed, but most likely it did)

the result of this is that a rune stone with about 800 words on it is the longest text we have from the iron age in sweden. the norse iron age writers sure were good at keeping texts short!

the rune stone with the most text of all rune stones in sweden:

WOLF FRIEND!!!

also a message about someone having build a bridge. but whatever. wolf!

you know what is nice? having jörmundgandr body has the borders for my writing!

I helgen har vi varit på Westerqwarn utanför Kolbäck tillsammans med Dethleffs Club of Sweden. Det var här vi träffade en del av medlemmarna för första gången för drygt ett år sedan. Det är riktigt roligt att äntligen kunna träffas igen, givetvis under coronasäkra former.

https://husbilsresorochaventyr.se/dethleffs-club-of-sweden/

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