Runstenarna i Brunnby

A few hundred meters away from each other are two rune stones, both erected by women. One was erected by Hedenis in memory of her husband Holmfast and her son Ängle. It is a stately stone adorned with a cross. Hedendis has also erected a stone in Tjursåker, about 7 kilometers from here, in memory of her father Ofeg.A little further east, at Gyllene Brunnen, there is a beautiful triangular stone, where the runes tell us that Ärnlög had the stone carved after Torsten, her husband, and that it was Livsten who carved the runes.Ärnlög also erected another stone, which stands in Stora Runhällen in Heby municipality. Both times she hired the carver Livsten.Livsten was an outstanding rune carver who often made complicated images of a four-footed animal entangled with a group of snakes. There are seven stones in the Uppland-Västmanland border area that he signed and another eleven that are typical of his style. Livsten lived in the first half of the 11th century.U1151 and U1152