Lund 1 Runestone

The Lund 1 Runestone is a granite stone pillar nearly four meters in height that has inscriptions carved on its four sides.

This is the runestone-style classification of inscriptions where the ends of the text bands are straight and there are no attached serpent or animal heads.

A similar Old Norse phrase praising the deceased, landmanna beztr meaning "best of landholders," is present on the inscriptions on memorial runestones Sö 338 in Turinge and DR 133 in Skivum, Denmark.

"[9] The Lund 1 Runestone was discovered in the ruins of a monastery in 1682,[4] where it had apparently been re-used as material in the construction of that building.

Before the historic significance of runestones was understood, they were often used as materials in the construction of roads, bridges, and buildings.