is a runestone that stands in the foyer of the
University Library in Lund. It is narrow and more than four meters high.
On it is a rune loop, ornaments and face mask.
September 29, 2020:
Have lunch at Kulturen's restaurant. Nice weather and we are sit outside in this pandemic,
as everyone else does. Then walk up to the university library to look at
the runestone that stands in its foyer.
It has been moved a bit since last time.
Now it stands in a corner, so you can barely see the top of the "back".
Up there, four meters up (Denmark's highest runestone), is a face mask.
Too bad you see it so badly as the stone is placed now.
On both short sides is a runic inscription, on the "front" are beautiful ornaments.
It is first mentioned in 1690,
when it was taken from the ruin of the All Saints' Monastery church
which was located here on the site during the Middle Ages.
It was divided into three parts and used at the entrance to the then university building.
The parts were reunited and put on the runestone hill in Lundagård before
it ended up here in 1957. The ornaments indicate a pagan connection,
there are also Christian crosses. There is a sign describing the stone and
translation of the runes:
Torgisl, son Asgeir Björnsson, erected these stones to the memory of his two brothers,
Olaf and Ottar, good landholders.
On my previous visit, I write: 'A bishop had it smashed to have it as a staircase.'.
I do not know where it comes from now.
6 February 2010:
Bikes down to
Allhelgonbacken and the University Library. The snow is white, the ice
is covering the small ponds. I have never visited the library, in the
foyer is a narrow four meters high rune stone known as the
Lundagård stone. A bishop smashed it in pieces in order to use it
in a staircase. In the end it was reassembled, and now it is in front
of me. On the stone is beautiful figurative images in the form of
wolves and face masks. Text to be interpreted as 'Torgel, son (of) Esge
Björnsson, raised this stone after his two brothers, Olaf and
Ottar, (which was) 'Landman' good'. The stone is dated to the 1000's. I
go out and move to the Museum of Sketches sculpture park. Orpheus plays
in the snow. A sculpture dive into the snow. I have a closer look at
the reliefs on the museum's facade. One is a model for a relief with
motifs from Swedish history.
Link:
Lund University Library
Map
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