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15-513: The Jelling stones are archaeological treasures erected by Harald Bluetooth to honour his parents. Encyclopædia Britannica considers the runic inscriptions the best known in Denmark. The Haraldskær Woman is a bog body interred in about 500 BC, discovered in a peat bog with a remarkable state of preservation. 55°42′36″N 9°32′00″E  /  55.71000°N 9.53333°E  / 55.71000; 9.53333 This article about

30-593: A location in the Central Denmark Region is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location in the Region of Southern Denmark is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jelling stones The Jelling stones ( Danish : Jellingstenene ) are massive carved runestones from the 10th century, found at the town of Jelling in Denmark . The older of

45-420: A previous method of cataloging. The third part of the code is a character which indicates the age ( Proto-Norse , Viking Age , or Middle Ages ) and whether the inscription is lost or retranslated. As such, U 88 would mean that the stone is from Uppland and that it is the 88th to be catalogued. This system has its origin in the book Sveriges runinskrifter (English: "Runic Inscriptions of Sweden") Most of

60-851: A supporting steel skeleton. The glass is coated with an anti-reflective material that gives the exhibit a greenish hue. Additionally, the bronze patina gives off a rusty, greenish colour, highlighting the runestones' gray and reddish tones and emphasising their monumental character and significance. The inscription on the larger of the two Jelling stones (Jelling II, Rundata DR 42 ) reads:   :     ᚼᛅᚱᛅᛚᛏᚱ haraltr Haraldr Haraldr ᛬ :     ᚴᚢᚾᚢᚴᛦ kunukʀ konungr kunungʀ ᛬ :     ᛒᛅᚦ baþ bað baþ ᛬ :     ᚴᛅᚢᚱᚢᛅ kaurua gera gørwa / ¶     ᚴᚢᛒᛚ kubl kuml kumbl ᛬ : Rundata The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base ( Swedish : Samnordisk runtextdatabas )

75-495: Is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of transliterated runic inscriptions . The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way for future research. The database is freely available via the Internet with a client program , called Rundata , for Microsoft Windows . For other operating systems , text files are provided or a web browser can be used to interact with

90-515: The burial mounds and small church nearby, were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as an unparalleled example of both pagan and Christian Nordic culture. The stones are strongly identified with the creation of Denmark as a nation state. Both inscriptions mention the name "Danmark" (in the form of accusative "tanmaurk" ( [dɑnmɒrk] ) on the large stone, and genitive "tanmarkar" (pronounced [dɑnmɑrkɑɹ̻̊˔] ) on

105-430: The name Bluetooth for the now-ubiquitous wireless standard. After having been exposed to the elements for a thousand years, cracks were beginning to show. On 15 November 2008 experts from UNESCO examined the stones to determine their condition. Experts requested that the stones be moved to an indoor exhibition hall, or in some other way protected in situ , to prevent further damage from the weather. In February 2011

120-529: The paint had not fully hardened, experts were able to remove it. The Heritage Agency of Denmark decided to keep the stones in their current location and selected a protective casing design from 157 projects submitted through a competition. The winner of the competition was Nobel Architects. The glass casing creates a climate system that keeps the stones at a fixed temperature and humidity and protects them from weathering. The design features rectangular glass casings strengthened by two solid bronze sides mounted on

135-410: The project was no longer funded and work continued on a voluntary basis outside of normal work-hours. In the current edition, published on December 3, 2008, there are over 6500 inscriptions in the database. Work is currently underway for the next edition of the database. Each entry includes the original text,in a transliterated form, its location, English and Swedish translations, information about

150-414: The site was vandalized using green spray paint, with the word "GELWANE" written on both sides of the larger stone, and with identical graffiti sprayed on a nearby gravestone and on the church door. After much speculation about the possible meaning of the enigmatic word "gelwane", the vandal was eventually discovered to be a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome and the word itself was meaningless. As

165-403: The small stone). The larger stone explicitly mentions the conversion of Denmark from Norse paganism and the process of Christianization , alongside a depiction of the crucified Christ ; it is therefore popularly dubbed "Denmark's baptismal certificate" ( Danmarks dåbsattest ), an expression coined by art historian Rudolf Broby-Johansen in the 1930s. In 1997 a photo of this stone inspired

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180-404: The stone itself, et cetera. The stones are identified with a code which consists of up to three parts. The first part describes the origin of the inscription. For Swedish inscriptions this contains a code for the province , and, for Extra-Nordic inscriptions, a code for the country (not ISO 3166 ). Province code: Country code: The second part of the code consists of a serial number or

195-602: The time, the Period/Datering information in Rundata just gives the date as V , meaning Viking Age , which is very broad. For some Danish inscriptions from Jacobsen & Moltke a more precise sub-period is given. The periods used are: Many of the inscriptions in Rundata also include a field called Stilgruppering . This refers to date bands determined by the style of ornamentation on the stone as proposed by Gräslund: The date bands are: The catalog numbers refer to

210-515: The two Jelling stones was raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra . The larger of the two stones was raised by King Gorm's son, Harald Bluetooth , in memory of his parents, celebrating his conquest of Denmark and Norway , and his conversion of the Danes to Christianity. The runic inscriptions on these stones are considered the best known in Denmark. In 1994, the stones, in addition to

225-649: The web application Runor . The origin of the Rundata project was a 1986 database of Swedish inscriptions at Uppsala University for use in the Scandinavian Languages Department. At a seminar in 1990 it was proposed to expand the database to cover all Nordic runic inscriptions, but funding for the project was not available until a grant was received in 1992 from the Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons foundation. The project officially started on January 1, 1993 at Uppsala University. After 1997,

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