Snoldelev Stone

	Runestone
Name	Snoldelev Stone
Rundata ID	DR 248
Country	Denmark
Region	Ramsø
City/Village	Currently Copenhagen, originally Snoldelev
Produced	Viking Age
Runemaster	unknown
Text - Native
	Gunwalds sten, sonaR Roalds, þulaR a Salhøgum.
Text - English
	Gunnvaldr's stone, Hróaldr's son, reciter of Salhaugar
Other resources
	Runestones - Runic alphabet; Runology - Runestone styles
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The 9th century runestone at Snoldelev, Ramsø, Denmark, is decorated with a design of three drinking horns interlocking as incomplete Borromean rings (similar to the Diane de Poitiers three crescents emblem), and a swastika. The triple horn motif has been compared to a triskelion, or to the valknut symbol. The runestone is housed at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The runestone shows an early version of the Younger Futhark. Like the late Elder Futhark Björketorp Runestone, it uses an a-rune which has the same form as the h-rune has in the long-branch version of the younger futhark. This a-rune is transliterated with capital A below. The Snoldelev runestone also retains the elder futhark haglaz rune () for the h-phoneme and this is represented by capital H in the transliteration below.

[edit] Inscription

The inscription reads:

kun'uAlts| |stAin ' sunaR ' ruHalts ' þulaR ' o salHauku(m)

This represents the Old Norse:

Gunwalds sten, sonaR Roalds, þulaR a Salhøgum.

In English translation by the Rundata project:

Gunnvaldr's stone, Hróaldr's son, reciter of Salhaugar

ÞulR signifies some office or rank, perhaps a priest or a skald, compare Old Norse þula "litany". The translation offered by the Rundata project suggests reciter. According to Peterson, Salhaugar refers to modern Salløv in the vicinity of the stone.