Identifier: socialscandinavi00will (find matches)
Title: Social Scandinavia in the Viking age
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Williams, Mary Wilhelmine, 1878-1944
Subjects: Scandinavia -- Civilization Scandinavia -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ompanied by the figure of his hammer; or the symbolof some other god. In the late Viking Age elaborately carved stones cameinto use, particularly in the island of Gotland. Thesestones showed genuine skill in workmanship. The topswere commonly semi-circular or horseshoe shaped, andthe surfaces, smooth.^ Such stones occasionally had 36/6td., 7. 37 Wimmer, Ludv. F. A.. Die Runenschrift, 335-382. The following are typical runic inscriptions: Ragnhild erected thisstone for Ale Salvegode, the highly honorable temple priest. Ales eonsraised this mound in memory of their father, and his wife for her hus-band; but Sote cut the runes for his master. May Tlior consecrate theserunes! Whoever removes this stone to raise it over another or injures it willbe required to make good the damage. Wimmer, 369. Rolf raised this stone in memory of Gudmund. his brothers son, andhis men, who were drowned at sea. Aweir cut the runes. Ibid., 346. 38 Pipping, Hugo, Om Runinskrifterna pa de Nyfunna Ardre-Stenarna.
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Fig. .30. Pictorial Monumental Kuiic Stone. ( Fioin IMjipin-^s Anlrc Sfeiianid I DEATH AND BURIAL 425 runes on both sides. A common motif was the figure ofa dragon or snake, arranged along the edge for a border;and between the parallel lines forming this animal therunes were cut. In the inclosed space were often elabo-rate twisted animal designs, figures of the gods in relief,or illustrations of scenes from Northern mythology.The later, more finely-engraved samples of stone workat times had the background filled in with color, par-ticularly red, in order that the bas-relief design mightstand out more distinctly; ^^ and occasionally the runicinscriptions themselves were painted red with a similaraim (Fig. 50).-« Not infrequently, runic stones w^ere placed within thegrave itself; but these were smaller than the ones erectedupon the mound, and bore only the name ofthe deceased, with perhaps a magical sen- Rune-tence. In the last part of the heathen period Atones Placed these small stone

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