Tryggevælde Runestone [SEP] collection
Tryggevælde Runestone
Tryggevælde Runestone, designated as DR 230 under Rundata, is a runestone housed in the National Museum of Denmark, in Copenhagen. It is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, and is dated to about 900 CE.
Description.
In 1555, the runestone was moved from a barrow to the Tryggevælde estate on Zealand. It came to Copenhagen in 1810.
There are several holes on the runestone, but no one knows why. Ragnhild, who raised the runestone, also had Glavendrup stone
Tryggevælde
Tryggevælde is a manor house and estate in Faxe Municipality, some fifty kilometres southwest of Copenhagen, Denmark. The estate was a royal fief until the middle of the 18th century and was later owned by the Moltke family at Bregentved from 1751 to 1937. The current main building is from 1849. The Tryggevælde Runestone was from some time during the 16th century to 1810 located in the central courtyard of the old main building.
History.
History Crown land, 1355–1670.
The name Tryggevælde is first mentioned in 1261