Glavendrup stone

The Glavendrup stone, exact as DR 209 by way of Rundata, is a runestone on the island of Funen in Denmark and dates from the early 10th century. It consists of Denmark's longest runic inscription and ends in a curse. The runestone forms the give up of a stone ship. There are different megaliths within the area, which include memorial stones with Latin characters from the early 20th century. In the stone deliver, nine graves had been found, but they had been all empty.

The runestone changed into determined whilst sand turned into quarried inside the region in 1794, and it turned into stored in 1808 by the archaeologist Vedel Simonssen while stonemasons desired to buy it. The ultimate healing become made in 1958, and the mound it's miles standing on is current. Ragnhild who ordered the stone additionally ordered the Tryggevælde Runestone from the runemaster Soti. The runic inscription is assessed as being in runestone style RAK. This is the type for inscriptions with textual content bands with straight ends that don't have connected serpent or beast heads.