Grosse Jelling stone is one of two stones of Jelling runic located in Jelling in Denmark. It was erected in 983 by the Danish King Harald "Blue tooth" in memory of his father King Gorm "the old" died in 958.

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  Rune stones of Gorm and Thyra

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  Side line of the big stone Runed Jelling

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  Rune stones, rear view

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Runic inscriptions on the great stone:

Note: The transcript follows the traditional uses .

• haraltr: kunuk: bath: kaurua
• "King Harald was doing"

• Kubla: Thaus: aft: kurma Fathur sin
• "These stelae for Gorm his father"

• auk aft: urui: Muthuri: sina: its
• "And, for his mother Thyra"

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• haraltr ias: s <a> uan tanmaurk
• "Harald conquered Denmark"

• ala auk nuruiak
• "Whole and Norway"

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• Auk tani <kari> kristn
• "And made the Danes Christians. "

The words or letters are illegible but returned boxes of Chevron , according to uses philological. The midpoint and colon are word separators.

One can find a facsimile of the stone in the Titus site.

There is a copy of this stone near the abbey of Saint-Ouen in Rouen , donated by Denmark to the city of Rouen in 1911 to mark the millennium of Normandy.

Related articles

• Small Jelling stone ;
• Runic alphabet ;
• epigraphy.

• Archaeology portal

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