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There are about 3,000 runestones in Scandinavia (out of a total of about 6,000 runic inscriptions).〔 p. 38.〕 The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia: The majority is found in Sweden, estimated at between 1,700〔 and 2,500 (depending on definition). Denmark has 250 runestones, and Norway has 50.〔 〕 There are also runestones in other areas reached by the Viking expansion, especially in the British Isles (Manx runestones,〔Page, Raymond I. (1995). ''(Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes )''. Parsons, D. (ed.) Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 207-244〕 England runestones, Scotland and Ireland)〔 and other islands of the North Atlantic (Faroer, Greenland, but not in Iceland), and scattered examples elsewhere (the Berezan' Runestone in Eastern Europe,〔Pritsak, O. (1987). ''The Origin of Rus'.'' Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Sawyer, Birgit. (2000). ''(The Viking-Age Rune-Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia )''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 306.〕 and runic graffiti on the Piraeus Lion in Venice, Italy).〔"Runsten", ''Nationalencyklopedin'' (1995), volume 16, pp. 91-92.〕 The vast majority of runestones date to the Viking Age and the period immediately following the Christianisation of Scandinavia (9th to 12th centuries). A small number predates the 9th century; one of the last runestones was raised in memory of the archbishop Absalon (d. 1201).〔Jansson 1997:166〕 A small number of runestones may date to the late medieval to early modern period, such as the Fámjin stone (Faroer Islands), dated to the Reformation period. Modern runestones (as imitations or forgeries of Viking Age runestones) began to be produced in the 19th century Viking Revival. The ''Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base'' (') is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of runestones in the ''Rundata'' database.〔 (www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm )〕 ==Elder Futhark runestones== The vast majority of runestones date to the Viking Age. There is only a handful Elder Futhark (pre-Viking-Age) runestones (about seven, counting the transitional specimens created just around the beginning of the Viking Age). *Einang stone (4th century) *Tune Runestone (250-400) *Kylver Stone (5th century) *Björketorp Runestone (transitional, 7th century) *Stentoften (transitional, 7th century) *Eggjum stone (8th century) *Rök Runestone (transitional, ca. 800) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of runestones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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