Runestone U380

The stone can be found on the lawn in front of the entrance to St Mary’s Church.

“Åsbjörn and Kus/Gus…”.

Åsbiorn was a common name during the Viking Age. The other name Kuss/Guss is probably a byname, meaning ‘the bent one’.

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The practice of erecting rune-inscribed memorial stones occurred in the 960s in Denmark and eventually spread northwards to Norway and Swe-den. Runes had certainly been used long before, but to a limited extent, as magical inscriptions on objects or on rune stones like the famous Rökstenen in the province of Östergötland. For these inscriptions an older runic alphabet with 24 characters was used. In the 10th century it was succeeded by a runic alphabet with 16 characters.

Source: https://www.sigtuna.se (Text: Thorgunn Snædal (National Board of Antiquities) and Sten Tesch (Arkistoria). English translation reviewed by Karin Atterlöf Perslow.)

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