GP 282 När Hallute
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Parish Find Location ⓘNär
Find Location ⓘHallute, the find spot is unknown.
Find Context Classification ⓘUnknown
Coordinate Find Location (lat) ⓘ6352105
Coordinate Find Location (long) ⓘ718732
Coordinate Present Location (lat) ⓘ6581391
Coordinate Present Location (long) ⓘ675775
Runic Inscription or not ⓘYes
Runic Inscription ⓘRunes occur on all three sides.
§A … : (k)… …ak : to… §B …iʀ a(n)uiþ… §C … : roþ : (b)… §D …--…
§A … §B … §C … §D …
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Context and Discovery ⓘThe fragment was donated to SHM in 1921 by Lektor M. Klintberg (Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 103). This is also recorded in an inventory card in ATA, together with the inventory number. The exact find spot is unknown. There is a mark in Fornsök, but it is uncertain how it came to be (Fornsök L1975:1806). The stone has an inventory number in SHM, but it cannot be localised. There are photos by Harald Faith-Ell in 1933, but it is doubtful whether Elias Wessén saw the fragment himself when Gotlands runinskrifter I was compiled.
In the vicinity, other runic picture stones have been found: GP 278 När Bosarve (G 92) and GP 279 När Mickelgårds (G 94). In addition, there is a runestone fragment of uncertain type and date (G 96), however, Wessén’s interpretation of the fragmented inscription suggests a late date – possibly medieval – for this stone.
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Measurements, Material and Condition ⓘLimestone slab, 8–9 cm thick. Height 0.6 m, width 0.5 m. Fragment belonging to the head of a small picture stone. Both broad sides are hewn flat and polished. Of the narrow sides, parts of both short sides survive. These remains demonstrate that the narrow side was treated in the same manner as the broad sides and that it is at right angles to them. The fragment has carvings on three faces. The fragment is decorated on both broad sides with deep lines with acute-angled cross section and with the background field-chiselled down to about the same depth as the bases of the limiting lines, namely about 4 mm deep. The background field is hewn flat and polished. In the runic inscription occur conical holes with mouths of up to 8 mm width (Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 103).
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Description of Ornament and Images ⓘThere are runes on the surviving sections of the framing border of both broad sides and on the narrow side. The field of one of the broad sides shows, at the very top, the lower portion of a horse with a rider; below that is an animal’s head in runestone style and the ends of two ribbons with curled tips on the right; the one reaching up furthest has a terminal disc of about 3-cm diameter (Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 103). The head of the runic animal can be classified as Pr4 in Gräslund’s style chronological system (Gräslund 2006).
The other broad side features, on the very left, a Klotzstuhl (Sw. kubbstol) and the lower part of a man sitting on it. In front of the man’s knees is a small piece of a board/slab with a rectangular corner – possibly a tabletop that, due to naïve image construction, seems to be standing vertically – resting on some kind of support – (one of the table legs?) – with concave sides. Below this, there probably are the thumb and the two neighbouring fingers of the hand of an outstretched arm as well as the tip of a ribbon with a 2.5-cm-wide terminal disc (Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 103). The details of the horse’s tail, the animal’s head, the chair, and the clothing of the man in the chair as well as of the table and the hand are defined by lines only 1-mm deep (Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 103). The chair has a carved inner contour line and further thin lines on the inside, perhaps indicating that the chair is ornamented. The clothes of the person in the chair are adorned with thin carved lines as well; it seems to be a man with baggy trousers.
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Interpretation of the Imagery ⓘThe round chair built of a tree trunk (Sw. kubbstol) is a type of furniture well known from ethnographical collections, but also from prehistory (Salin 1916, p. 78; Lindqvist/de Geer 1939). Similar chairs can be seen on the picture stones GP 341 Sanda kyrka I (G 181), GP 3 Alskog kyrka and GP 61 Buttle Änge. Lindqvist compared the chairs on the picture stones to a chair from Sauland in Norway, which he suggested might be a piece of Viking age furniture; however, it was dendrochronologically dated to late middle age (Lindqvist/de Geer 1939, p. 106, p. 122, p. 130). What makes the chair special in this context is that this particular sort of chair appears as miniatures in the Viking age, together with other miniature objects, such as swords, sickles and staves. In an article about miniatures, Birgit Arrhenius mentions Viking age miniature chairs made of silver, bronze and amber, found in graves, hoards and as loose finds. Up to the writing of Arrhenius, the miniature chairs with round shape in burial context were known from female graves only, for example from Birka and Ihre on Gotland (Arrhenius 1961, pp. 149–150). We may infer by their use as amulets or jewellery that such chairs carry some significant meaning. Consequently, Arrhenius suggests that they are symbolic thrones for worldly or spiritual power (Arrhenius 1961, p. 156). On GP 341 Sanda kyrka I and GP 3 Alskog kyrka, the two first-mentioned stones, women sit on the chairs and the scene is combined with short processions of three people carrying some kind of tools (see also GP 203 Hemse Annexhemman I). Arrhenius’ interpretation of the scene on Sanda I is that the men bring forth symbols of fertility and power to a god, who is sitting opposite the woman (Arrhenius 1961, pp. 152–154; Böttger-Niedenzu 1982, pp. 75–76).
LKÅGP 341 Sanda kyrka I GP0003GP0061GP0203
Type and Dating ⓘType E. Pr4, c. 1070–1100 AD (Gräslund 2006, p. 126).
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TitleGP 282 När Hallute
Fornsök ID ⓘL1975:1806
RAÄ ID ⓘNär 50:1
Jan Peder Lamm ID200
Statens Historiska Museer ID ⓘ16724
Lindqvist Title ⓘNär, Hallute
Runverket ID ⓘG 93
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