August 28, 2025
Last visit was winter, now it is a nice summer day. This time we drive, park in the church parking lot and walk through the cemetery to the church. In front of the tower, by the cemetery wall, stands the runestone. The stone, which is not in its original place, is signposted. Dated to the late Viking Age. Man's high with a simple rune loop, interpretation according to the signposting:

Esbern erected this stone after his faelle Dvaerg a well-born Dreng.

Where Dreng is a title close to kingship. Well-born of good birth. Faelle 'felaga' a form of association. We feel the church door, it is unlocked so we also visit inside Fosie church, then via the ancient monument Mångelsten for lunch in Vismarlövs café.

Fosie church

6 Jan 2010: The virus that has occupied my body is almost gone. Take the bus 170 to Fosie church in southern Malmö. Almost door to door. Bypasses a belfry to the funeral chapel. Outside the gate of the church is a rune stone, decorated with snow today. The information plate is covered with snow. The snow lies untouched around the stone, let it be so. "Asbjorn erected this stone after Dwarf, his friend, (a) good fighter", it says on the stone according to my book. The church is located on Malmö's highest point, 37 meters, which gives a view. The cemetery is beautifully embedded in the snow. The church was built in the 1100s, but has undergone renovations. A major in 1896 was radical. Towards the church wall is a gravestone with squiggly text. At the memorial grove is a fine piece of art, birds in flight. It clears up, the church and the snow pictures a beautiful scenery. I return to the bus stop and take the bus home.

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GPS: WGS84 decimal (lat, lon) 55.56267,13.02481