The Einang-stone is 1,47 m high, 1,05 wide and between 13 – 18 cm thick. The rune-inscription dates from ca 300 CE: “[Ek go]ðagastir runo faihido” or “I Gudgjest wrote the runes”.
The stone is very brittle and stands under a roof and behind glass-walls to keep it safe.
View from Gardberg. Fog in the valley below.
Remains of a burialmound at Gardberg.
Gardberg is an area covering more than 2 square kilometers in the municipality of Vestre Slidre in Valdres. Follow the signs to Einangsteinen from road E16.
550 of a proposed thousand burial mounds has been investigated. More than 900 finds date from Roman iron-age up towards viking-age 800 CE. The area has traces of iron-production before, under and after viking-age.
There is a stone with 70 saucerlike hollows.
The famous Einang-runestone is also here.