Skalunda is a village in Västergötland, Sweden. is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative Provinces of Sweden ( landskap in Swedish situated in the southwest of Sweden. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Skalunda was one of the eight royal estates of early medieval Västergötland (cf. Uppsala öd). Uppsala öd, Old Norse: Uppsala auðr or Uppsala øðr ( Uppsala domains or wealth of Uppsala) was the name given to the collection Moreoever, the names of two homesteads, Lagmansgården and Lagmanstorp, in the neighbourhood show that the Geatish lawspeakers used to reside at Skalunda. Geats, Geatas, Gautar, Goths, Gotar, Gøtar, Götar were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting Götaland See also Medieval Scandinavian laws Lawspeaker ( Swedish: lagman, Old Swedish: laghmaþer or laghman, Danish
At the church, there are two runestones and to the west of the church there is a barrow which is the largest one in Västergötland. A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a Mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves It measures 65 metres across and it is 7 metres high. Next to the barrow there is a stone circle. The Stone Circles of the Iron Age (ca 500 BC - ca 400 AD were a characteristic burial custom of southern Scandinavia especially on Gotland and in Götaland The barrow is so large that it compares to the large barrows in Uppland, which shows that Skalunda was important location during the Iron Age. Uppland ( is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital
History
Birger Nerman, a Swedish archaeology professor and director of the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, considered the barrow of Skalunda to be the most likely burial site of the hero Beowulf, a legendary Geatish king. Birger Nerman ( October 6, 1888 – 1971) was a Swedish Archaeologist and writer Swedish Museum of National Antiquities (known in Swedish as Historiska museet or more formally Statens historiska museum) is a Museum located Beowulf (ˈBeɪoʊwʊlf/ /ˈBeɪəwʊlf Old English ˈbeːo̯wʊlf is a legendary Geatish hero and later king in the Old English epic poem named after him Geatish kings (Rex Getarum/Gothorum existed since the provinces of Götaland /Gautland/Geatland (the Geats feature in the epic poem ' Beowulf ' are considered to have Skalunda is not far from a place called Årnäs, which is the same name as Earnaness where the hero died in the epic Beowulf, and it is located on a major promontory and near a minor one. Earnanæs ( Old English) Aranæs ( Old Swedish) and Årnäs ( Modern Swedish) is the name of at least two locations in what is today Beowulf is an Old English Heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between
The barrow has not yet been excavated.
References
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- Ewald, Gustaf. (1950). Är Skalunda hög kung Beowulfs grav? Västgöta-Bygden nr 1, sid 335-336. (Om *Birger Nermans och °Carl Otto Fasts idéer angående hednatima kungars gravplats. )
- Flink, G. : Landet mellan Larva Bäsing och Skalundahögen. Arkeologi i Sverige 1982-83. 1986.
- Nerman, B. När kom Västergötland under svearnas välde? Västergötlands fornminnesförenings tidskrift 1956.
- The article Skalunda on the site of the Museum of Foteviken. Retrieved May 29, 2007.
- Svärdström, Elisabeth: Västergötlands runinskrifter. 1958-1970.
- Thorstensson, Gunnar: Skalundahögen. Västgötabygden, tidskrift för hembygdsarbete, natur- och kulturminnesvård. Västergötlands hembygdsförbund 1996. Sid 10-11.
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