Skarpåker Stone

Runefacts|name=Skarpåker Stone
rundataid=Sö 154
country=Sweden
region=Sörmland
city= Skarpåker
produced=early 11th Century
artist= unknown
text_native=kunar : raisþi : stain : þansi : at lyþbiurn : sun : sin : iarþsalr ifna uk ub himi n
text_english= Gunnar raised this stone for Lydhbjorn, his son. the Earth shall be rent, and the heavens above.
picture=

The Skarpåker Stone (Rundata Sö 154) found in Skarpåker, Nyköping, Sörmland, Sweden, dated to the early 11th century. It bears a skaldic Younger Futhark inscription, transcribed in standardized Old East Norse:

:"Gunnarr reisti stein þenna at Lyðbjörn, son sinn. Jarð sal rifna ok upphiminn."

The eschatology of the verse. "the Earth shall be rent, and the heavens above", apparently expressing a father's devastation at the loss of his son (compare Sonatorrek), evokes the catastrophic end of the world Germanic mythology, described in the Edda as Ragnarök and also alluded to in the Muspilli.

External links

*http://web.telia.com/~u58110628/so154skarpaker.html