Kingigtorssuaq Runestone


  
Runestone
Name Kingigtorssuaq Runestone
Rundata ID GR 1 M
Country Greenland
Region Sermersooq
City/Village Nuuk
Produced Middle Ages
Runemaster Unknown
Text - Native
Erlingr Sighvats sonr ok Bjarni Þórðar sonr ok Eindriði Odds sonr laugardagin fyrir gagndag hlóðu varða þe[ssa] ok ... ...
Text - English
Erling Sigvatsson, Bjarne Thordarson and Enride Oddson Saturday before gangdag (April 25th) made these stone cairns
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The Kingigtorssuaq Runestone (GR 1 M) was found in 1824 in a cairn on top of the mountain on Kingigtorssuaq Island (or Kingittorsuaq Island, near 72°51′N 55°29′W / 72.85°N 55.483°W / 72.85; -55.483) north of Upernavik in western Greenland. The stone is now located at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.

The stone has been dated to the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia states the date as April 25, 1135. William Thalbitzer dates the stone to 1314 using pentadic numerals. Others have dated the stone between 1250 and 1333.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Enterline, James Robert (2002). Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus. Center for American Places (illustrated ed.). JHU Press. pp. 127-129. ISBN 080186660X. http://books.google.fi/books?id=Pr-s7MrkBW8C&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=Kingigtorssuaq+Runestone&source=bl&ots=tAS68uFfZ2&sig=Fpxje34Y8ymWSjPnLeAJp3uTtwU&hl=fi&ei=f0GNSfPdLY-C-gbdh_SCCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA128,M1. Retrieved on 07-02-2009. 

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