Runic inscription:

Front:
Östen and Frösten erected the stone after Este, their father, and

On the edge
Åsgärd after her husband, but Snare cut it.
 

Runristare:

Snare

Facts:

Granite 190 x 65 x 50 cm

The runestone is located 6 meters W of the utility road and about 10 meters SE of a very old three-part property boundary.

Histoy

In 1680 it is mentioned and depicted by Hadorph and Leitz.
The top was already broken off and disappeared. The ornamentation and runes on the edge of the runestone were not noticed at the time. Instead, it was a happy surprise when the runestone was rediscovered in 1981.

In 1850, the runestone was searched for by Dahlgren but could not be found.

In 1950 it was mentioned as missing in the book Uppland runic inscriptions.

In 1981, the runestone was searched for again, and this time it was found lying in pieces in a stone quarry. It was then repaired to the best of its ability and erected in the place where it stands today.

It was farmer Gunnar Nilsson at Törnby farm who rediscovered the runestone. He had been looking for it for many years when he came up with the idea of ​​looking for it in a stone shard next to Törnby's old church road about 800 m. north of the farm.

Under some larger stones he found one with moss on it and when Gunnar removed the moss, both runes and ornamentation were visible.

Gunnar soon found two more larger rune-carved stone pieces and a few days later a smaller stone fragment, then most of U 44 was found.

Links

Upplands runinskrifter > Page 58
(Swedish only)

Runor >  Riksantikvarieämbetet
(National Antiquities Board, mostly Swedish)

Fornvännen 1982 > Sid. 232-236
(Swedish only)

Google map > Find the runestone

 

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