This picture sort of summed up today. In planning today’s ride I called is a short one thinking I’d take it fairly easy and roll along the road. My legs said otherwise. They didn’t like what I’d done to them yesterday and said so quite forcefully, not again. This was just one of the many stops along the way when I main lined coffee and danish into my legs at a Petrol Station. However there’s always some interest spots along the way
The top and bottom are original 11 century but the middle – ‘fraid not
This was the 4th Rune I came across. The top and bottom parts are original 11th century. The middle piece is missing, probably part of a barn somewhere. So all we know of the inscription is “the stone rose after Agute, good…” One is left wondering about Agute. What was he good at? Farming? Fighting? Winning Gold at the Viking Games? And of course why did he raise the stone in the first place. I bet he’d be pretty pissed off to know that someone backed their cart in the stone, broke it and nicked the middle bit so that all his work chiselling the granite so he could be remembered as being good at something came to naught. Mind you the middle bit is fairly small compared to the other bits, so he couldn’t have been that good. I think it was the neighbours who did it.