page_title: Sövestad Runestones
section_title: Sövestad 2
hierarchical_section_title: Sövestad Runestones / Sövestad 2
caption_attribution_description: English: Sövestad 2 runestone DR 291 (Krageholm) Svenska: Sövestad 2 vid Krageholm, signum DR 291.
context_page_description: The Sövestad Runestones consist of a Viking Age image stone and memorial runestone found near Krageholm Castle, which is about two kilometers west of Sövestad, Skåne County, Sweden.
context_section_description: The inscription on Sövestad 2, which is listed as DR 291 in the Rundata catalog, consists of runic text in the younger futhark carved within a serpent that curves to make four text frames and within a separate inner text band. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Fp, which is the classification for inscriptions with text bands with serpent or beast heads depicted as seen from above. The granite stone, which is 1.5 meters in height, was discovered with the inscription side down in a grove near a lake on the castle grounds in 1757.
  The runic text indicates that the stone was raised as a memorial to a man named Bramr by his wife Tonna and son Asgotr. Bramr is described as being bæztr bomanna or "best of estate-holders" and mildastr mataʀ or "most generous with food." This description is consistent with generosity with food and feasting being a mark of power and renown in Viking Age Scandinavia. Several other runestones also note persons who are generous with food, including inscription U 739 in Gådi, which similar to DR 291 describes a man as mildr mataʀ or "generous with food," Sm 37 in Rörbro which uses yndr mataʀ or "liberal with food," and Sm 39 in Ryssby, Sm 44 in Ivla, Sö 130 in Hagstugan, U 703 in Väppeby, and U 805 in Fröslunda, where men are described using a form of matar góðan or "free with food."
caption: The Sövestad 2 stone.
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