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	Topics Snoldelev Stone Topic Home The 9th century9th century As a means of recording the passage of time the 9th century was that century that lasted from 801 to 900.... runestone at Snoldelev, RamsøRamsø Rams is a municipality in Roskilde County on the island of Zealand in east Denmark.... , DenmarkFacts About Denmark The Kingdom of Denmark is the smallest and southernmost of the Nordic countries.... , is decorated with a design of three drinking hornDrinking horn A drinking horn was a drinking vessel formerly common in some parts of the world.... s interlocking as incomplete Borromean ringsBorromean rings In mathematics, the Borromean rings consist of three topological circles which are linked despite the fact that no two of th... (similar to the Diane de PoitiersDiane de Poitiers Diane de Poitiers was a noblewoman and a fixture at the courts of Francis I and Henri II of France.... three crescents emblem), and a swastikaSwastika he swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles in either left-facing or right-facing direction.... . The triple horn motif has been compared to a triskelionTriskelion Triskelion is a symbol consisting of three bent human legs, or, more generally, three interlocked spirals, or any similar sy... , or to the valknutValknut Summary The valknut is a symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles.... symbol. The runestone is housed at the National Museum of DenmarkNational Museum of Denmark The National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen is Denmarks central museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Dan... in Copenhagen, Denmark. The runestone shows an early version of the Younger FutharkYounger Futhark The Younger Fuþark, also called Scandinavian Fuþark, are a runic alphabet, a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consis... . Like the late Elder FutharkElder Futhark The Elder Futhark is the oldest form of the runic alphabet, used by Germanic tribes for Proto-Norse and other Migration peri... Björketorp RunestoneBjörketorp Runestone The Bj?rketorp Runestone in Blekinge, Sweden, is part of a grave field which includes menhirs, both solitary and forming st... , it uses an a-rune which has the same form as the h-rune has in the long-branch version of the younger futhark. This a-rune is transliterated with capital A below. The Snoldelev runestone also retains the elder futhark haglazHaglaz Haglaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the h-rune ?, meaning "hail".... rune for the h-phoneme and this is represented by capital H in the transliteration below. Inscription The inscription reads: kun'uAlts\| \|stAin ' sunaR ' ruHalts ' þulaR ' o salHauku(m) This represents the Old Norse: Gunwalds sten, sonaR Roalds, þulaR a Salhøgum. In English translation by the RundataRundata The Joint Nordic database for runic inscriptions is a project started on January 1, 1993 at Uppsala University in Uppsala, S... project: Gunnvaldr's stone, Hróaldr's son, reciter of Salhaugar ÞulR signifies some office or rank, perhaps a priest or a skald, compare Old NorseOld Norse Old Norse is the Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking... þula "litany". The translation offered by the RundataFacts About Rundata The Joint Nordic database for runic inscriptions is a project started on January 1, 1993 at Uppsala University in Uppsala, S... project suggests reciter. According to Peterson, Salhaugar refers to modern Salløv in the vicinity of the stone. Germanic Neopaganism The triple horn motif on the stone was adopted by the Asatru Folk AssemblyAsatru Folk Assembly The Asatru Folk Assembly or AFA is an Ásatrú organization based in the US which was founded by Stephen McNallen in 199... as its official logo in October 2006. Gallery Sources and external links by Lena Peterson at the Swedish Institute for Linguistics and Heritage (Institutet för språk och folkminnen).