Runestone with serpent ornamentation

Söderbymalmsstenen, a rune stone at Haninge kulturhus, contains an inscription. It was originally at a way cross where forna Tyresövägen met the great highway to the south. For almost all of the last century, it remained in its original location in front of a wooden villa from the beginning of that century.

When the house was demolished in connection with the reorganization of the road network around 1970, the stone was moved to a wooded area below a hilly mountain. A few decades later, when Haninge kulturhus was built, the rune stone ended up in the line of sight from the glazed library part. In 2008, it was moved to its current location in front of the kulturhus.

The stone's inscription translates as 'Anund. (or Øyndr(?)). undr(?) raised this stone after Vikinge, his father, Stores son'. The name 'Stura' may originate from Stori, originally a nickname for 'large'. The ornamentation on the stone includes an intertwined serpent that forms an eight - the upper loop encloses a cross and the lower loop contains the extra rune line with the text 'sun stura +' which translates as 'Stores son'.

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