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Klepp I Runestone

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of the estate of the deceased woman Ásgerðr. The details of the family ties indicate the different ways that Ásgerðr could inherit property and how it then could be divided among the living.
71:, which means "rocky hill," for the town of Klepp. It has been suggested that the detailed description of the family relationships in the inscription may have been to document the 500: 290:þurir : harþar:sunr : raisti : stain : þina : ¶ aft : oskarþi : kuon : sina : (t)u(t)ur : kunars (:) 515: 510: 418: 505: 438: 59:
The Klepp I Runestone has three lines of runic text on two sides of the stone. The runic inscription ends with a
293:Þórir {} Harðarsonr {} reisti {} stein {} þenna {} {} ept {} Ásgerði, {} kván {} sína, {} dóttur {} Gunnars, {} 67:, or the late 10th or early 11th century. The inscription provides an early example of the use of the name 78:
Although the runestone is classified as a Christian monument, Ásgerðr combines two name elements from
384: 414: 448: 434: 60: 79: 296:Þórir Harðr's son raised this stone in memory of his wife Ásgerðr, daughter of Gunnarr 494: 64: 442: 408: 72: 461: 481: 48: 413:. van der Hoek, Betsy (trans.). Woodbridge: Boydell Press. pp. 91, 117. 32: 87: 40: 465: 83: 28: 44: 91: 36: 63:, indicating that it dates from after the local conversion to 86:, the main group of Norse gods, and the name of the goddess 51:
runestones that was raised as a memorial to a woman.
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Index

Rundata
runestones
Klepp
Rogaland
Norway
Viking Age
cross
Christianity
inheritance
Norse paganism
Æsir
Gerðr
Freyr
List of runestones


Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions
ISBN
1-84383-186-4
Cleasby, Richard
Vigfússon, Guðbrandur
An Icelandic-English Dictionary
197
Project Samnordisk Runtextdatabas Svensk
Rundata
Norske runeinnskrifter med de yngre runer
Categories
Runestones raised in memory of women
Runestones in Norway
10th-century inscriptions

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