Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags

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Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1971, Page 73

Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1971, Page 73
RÚNASTEINAR OG MANNFRÆÐI 73 höggvið á steina en annað letur. Frá því að notkun rúnaleturs hætti hlýtur það að hafa varðveitzt á þann hátt, að menn hafa skrifað það upp í syrpur sínar, hver eftir öðrum. Þegar komið er fram á 15.-17. öld hlýtur það að hafa verið orðið stirðnað, af því að það hafði ekki verið lifandi letur í margar aldir, og á löngum tíma og við margar uppskriftir hafa slæðzt inn margar villur og því voru sum rúnamerkin þá orðin röng. Syrpurnar átti efnafólkið, einkum það, sem stóð á gömlum merg. Rúnaletrið var eflaust orðið sjaldgæft þegar komið var fram á 17. öld, og ekki hefur galdratrúin, sem þá var í algleymingi, örvað viðhald þess. Það hefur því eflaust ekki verið margra fyrirmynda að leita fyrir rúnastöfunum handa þeim, sem höggva áttu á steinana, en fornlyndir menn hafa þá þó enn lumað á forskriftum. SUMMARY Runic Stones and Personál History. The earliest gravestones in Icelandic churchyards are for the most part oblong prismatic basalt columns, unworked but for the inscriptions which are carved with runes. These runic stones, never very numerous, can be roughly dated to the period 1300-1700. In most cases the inscriptions are very brief. Sometimes they are limited to the formel „Here rests N. N.“, but quite often a few words like „God guard his (her) soul“ are added. Anders Bæksted, in his book Islands runeindskrifter, Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana II, Copenhagen 1942, made a very thorough and valuable survey of Icelandic runic inscriptions. The present author only aims at examining the runie stones from the point of view of genealogy and personal history, a side not paid much attention to by Bæksted. The outcome is that a good many persons, whose names we read on the stones, cannot possibly be indentified among people known from medieval documents. Others, however, are easily identifiable, and the author has succeeded in Proving the identity of quite a few in addition. In a few cases the inscriptions add u valuable piece of information to the knowledge available in other sources. The author points out that in more than one case a close family relationship can be established between two or more persons honoured with runic stones on their graves. Generally speaking these people belonged to the well-to-do class.
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