Skráningarfærsla handrits

Paper.. The watermark is a sheild with a crown and a Basel Crozier. Beneath, the capital letters "V A" are found.

The written pages are foliated 1-18 in red ink.

The content consists of texts and illustrations of runic stones and grave slabs. It is written in long lines but the number of lines varies according to how much information is written for each monument. The layout also varies considerably in this manuscript. Both a single illustration with text and two different illustrations with texts on one page are found. The position of text varies too; thus we find text above, under, right and left of the illustrations. On the inserted leaves, fols 3-4, the text is found on 3r and the illustrations are found on 3v and 4r. Fols 1, 8, 12 together with the last 3 leaves are blank. Fols 1v, 2v, 5v, 11v, 16r + 18v are also blank.

Written and drawn by Jonas Skonvig.

The inserted leaves, fols 3-4, are written in another hand.

Pictures of rune stones and gravestones:

• 1r Gjesing Gravestone 1
• 2r Øster Alling Stone
• 3v, 5r Gravestone laid over Magnus at Framlev Church fol. 3v inserted leaf by an unknown illustrator, fol. 5r by Skonvig
• 4r Gravestone laid over Karl at Framlev Church inserted leaf by an unknown illustrator
• 6r Glenstrup Stone 1
• 6v Hobro Stone 2
• 7r Randers Stone 1
• 7r † Hobro Stone 1
• 9r Hune Stone
• 9v Romanesque gravestone in Sundby
• 10r Øster Brønderslev Casing Stone
• 10r † Vrejlev Stone
• 10v Hillerslev Stone
• 11r † Tvorup Stone
• 13r † Lee Stone
• 13rHjermind Stone 1
• 13v † Torup Stone
• 13v Gunderup Stone 2
• 14r Gunderup Stone 1
• 14v Sønder Vinge Stone 1
• 15r Langå Stone 1
• 15r Langå Stone 2
• bl. 15vx

  Grensten stone

• 16v

  Gravestone Laid over Asser in Ejsing Church

• 16v

  Ådum Stone

• 17r

  Horne Stone

• 17r

  Øster Løgum Stone

• 17v

  Jelling Stone 2

• 18r

  Jelling Stone 1

Written in Denmark in c. 1629.

The illlustrated pamphlets of notes, AM 366-371 fol. forms part of a larger corpus commonly referred to as Præsteindberetninger til Ole Worm (‘Priests’ Reports submitted to Ole Worm’). In the seventeenth century the doctor, scholar of antiquities and polymath Worm collected curiosities for his private collection of antiquities, Museum Wormianum, while simultaneously pursuing an interest in prehistoric Denmark, and in particular runic inscriptions. To this end, on 11. ágúst 1622, Worm sent a missive to every bishop in Denmark requesting that they instruct their rectors to investigate ancient monuments found in their parishes, and primarily objects featuring runic inscriptions. Worm then used these handwritten reports as the basis of his printed book, Monumenta Danica from 1643, a work which laid the foundations of runic research in Denmark.

What links AM 366-371 fol. together is that they contain some of the earliest written accounts of runic inscriptions and petroglyphs in the former Danish kingdom, which at that time encompassed Skåne, Halland and Blekinge in present-day Sweden, Norway, including Bohuslän (which at that time was part of Norway) as well as Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

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