KYLVER STONE.

ROLCAM · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:19 am Post subject: KYLVER STONE.

The Kylver stone

The Kylver stone is a rune stone whose official name is G. 88 dating to ca.400, found at the farm Kylver, Stånga, Gotland in 1903. The stone was a flat rock used for a grave, and the inscription was written on the inside of the grave, only visible to the corpse. One theory about this is that the runes had magic properties and should hinder the person in the grave from coming back, another theory is that the rock was scrap material used for practicing rune-carving.

The stone is inscribed with the earliest known sequential listing of the 24 runes of the Old Futhark. After the last rune follows an unknown spruce-like rune commonly believed to be a modified Tyr rune. At a separate space the word (sulius or sueus) is inscribed. The meaning of this latter word is unknown, but is assumed to associated with magic. (Also note that the small inscription uses the younger fuþark version of the s-rune.)
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