Sigurd stones
In addition, the figure of Sigurd sucking the dragon's blood from his thumb appears on several carved stones in parts of Great Britain with strong Scandinavian cultural influence: at Ripon and Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire, at York and at Halton, Lancashire,[1] and carved slates from the Isle of Man, broadly dated c. 950–1000, include several pieces interpreted as showing episodes from the Sigurd story.
[3] The combination of crosses with Sigurd images is taken as evidence of acceptance and use of legends from the Völsung cycle by Christianity during the transition period from Norse paganism.
The runic text is ambiguous, but one interpretation of the persons mentioned, based on those other inscriptions, is that Sigríðr is the widow of Sigrøðr, and Holmgeirr was her father-in-law.
[11] Latin transliteration: Old Norse transcription: English translation: This inscription, located at Gök, which is about 5 kilometers west of Strängnäs, is on a boulder and is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr1–Pr2.
The inscription dates from the same time as the Ramsund carving and it uses the same imagery, but a Christian cross has been added and the images are combined in a way that distorts the narrative logic.
[12] Whatever the reason may have been, the Gök stone illustrates how the pagan heroic mythos was tending to dissolution during the Christianization of Scandinavia.
Other images include a tree, the horse Grani, a bird, the head of Regin and a headless body, the roasting of the dragon heart, and Ótr.
[15] Latin transliteration: Old Norse transcription: English translation: This runestone is found at the church of Årsunda and was documented during a survey in 1690.
[3] The runic text, which is reconstructed from the 1690 drawing, uses a bind rune that combines the e- and l-runes in the name of the mother, Guðelfr.
[17] Latin transliteration: Old Norse transcription: English translation: This runestone, which is tentatively categorized as style Pr2, is located at the church of Ockelbo.
[21] Gunnar in the snake pit was used as a Biblical typology similar to that of Daniel in the lion's den in representing Christ rising unharmed from Hell.
[22] Above the snake pit panel is a runic inscription, which ends with five identical bind runes of which the last two are mirrored.
Old Norse transcription: English translation: The Hunninge picture stone was found on Gotland and includes imagery that may be related to the Völsung cycle.
