Runestones, Gerlog and Inga - Snottsta and Vreta Stones, Gerlog and Inga, Hillersjo Stone, Farentuna Runestones (Paperback)

Chapters: Snottsta and Vreta Stones, Gerlog and Inga, Hillersjo Stone, Farentuna Runestones. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The farm Snottsta or Snattsta, Old Norse: Snotastaoir, is still in the same spot, 1000 years after the rune stones were made as documentation of the rights of property of the estate.The Snottsta and Vreta stones are individual runestones known as U 329, U 330, U 331 and U 332. They are found on the homesteads of Snottsta (also spelled Snattsta) and Vreta, and they tell in Old Norse with the younger futhark about the family story of Gerlog and Inga in 11th century Uppland, Sweden, together with the Hillersjo stone (U 29) and the runestone U 20/21. The inscriptions are in the style Pr3 which suggests that they were carved in the period 1050-1080. They were carved first, then U 20/21, and last Gerlog's Hillersjo stone. The four runestones say that Ragnfast, Inga's husband has died. Ragnfast was the sole inheritor of the homestead Snottsta after his father Sigfast. The runestone standing at Vreta gives the central information "she inherited her child." This statement agrees with what is said on the Hillersjo stone (U 29), which is that Inga inherited her son, a son who was not named, probably because he was very young. The central message of these runestones is "Inga inherited Snottsta after Ragnfast. Further information which is provided by the runestones is that Ragnfast had a housecarl named Assur. Why this is important is not mentioned, but it is likely that Assur had a strong position in the clan and may have inherited some of Ragnfast's property. Furthermore, the runestone U329 contains some information about a third and a fourth woman, Estrid and Gyrid. It says that Ragnfast is the brother of Gyrid and Estrid, and th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=8758946