Skráningarfærsla handrits

Paper. The watermark is a symmetrical shield picturing a man in a loincloth standing in water with a heavy stick in his right hand; his left hand is extended, holding a waving band above his head. On the inserted leaf, fol. 2, the lower part of a watermark is seen: The bottom part of a shield depicting the west front of a church with twin towers.

Foliation 1-25 by Kålund in red ink.

The content consists of texts and illustrations af runic stones, runic monuments and grave slabs. The texts are written in long lines but the number of lines varies according to how much information is provided for each monument. Each page features a text and an illustration with the text placed either above or below the illustration. However, the texts and the illustrations of the runic monuments: Hunnestad Monument 9v-10r, Björketorp Monument 11v-12r and Västra Strö Monument (12v-13r), are laid out with text on the versos and the illustrations on the following rectos.

The illustration of Västra Strö Monument is drawn vertically.

Fol. 3 is blank; fols 1r, 2v, 2bisr, 3r-v, 4v, 5v, 9r, 17v, 18v and 19v are also blank.

Written and drawn by Jonas Skonvig.

• 1v-2r Picture of Runamo. Fol. 1v shows the draft, fol. 2 the finished drawing.
• 2bis v Holm Stone
• 4r † Listerby Trellis-work
• 5r Tullstorp Stone
• 6r Bjäresjö Stone 2
• 6r Bjäresjö Stone 1
• 6v Östra Vemmenhög Stone
• 7r Hyby Stone 1
• 7v Skårby Stone 1
• 8r Sjörup Stone
• 8v Norra Åsum Stone
• 10r Hunnestad Monument
• 10v † Östra Hoby Stone
• 11r Stora Köpinge Stone
• 12r Björketorp Monument
• 13r Västra Strö Monument
• 13v † Gummarp Stone
• 14rGårdstunga Stone 1
• 14v Sturkö Stone
• 15r † Allerum Stone 1
• 15v Lösen Gravestone 1
• 16r Uppåkra Stone
• 16v Valkärra Stone
• 17r Lösen Stone 2
• 18r Fuglie Stone 1
• 19r Fosie Stone

Written in Sweden in the summer of 1627.

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.

Catalogued by . The information on the runic inscriptions mainly comes from Danmarks runeindskrifter and the internet database Danske runeindskrifter.