This is the story about the rune stone for HSB in Haningek sin runsten huggen på Adelsö

Almost 40 years ago HSB built residents nearby the center of Haninge.
There was a big block of granite in the construction area that was to big to be moved.
Instead a park and footpaths at the location. The tenant-owners' society that were
created was named Runstenen (the runestone).

34 years later, in the year 1996
The chairman of the society, Anita Callander, visits Tyresta by (an old yard nearby Tyresta Åva National park) and finds me, Kalle rune carver. (At the time I had my place of work next to the rippling brook that flows through the area).

When Anita saw that I carved runestones an idea was born: Their society with the name "the runestone" should have their own runestone?!

Spring 2001 When the planning of their 40-year anniversary began to take chap, the idea about an own runestone became of interest. By this time I, Kalle rune carver, had moved to Adelsö, so here is where they found me and a runestone could be ordered. In the spring 2002 it was time for transport. Due to a tough winter and an earlier inauguration date than planed, the decision was made to move the stone to Adelsö and let it be carved there. A big crane lorry got the job to move the stone. *

The autumn 2001 the stone is examined and granted as a runestone-material.	16 april 2002. The crane lorry from Haninge Åkeri lifts the erratic block for transport.	The trip to Adelsö has began. A picture taken trough the rear-view mirror.

The journey continues troughout our beautiful landscape. From Haninge we took the beautiful Länna road trough Huddinge and took the ferry from Slagsta to Ekerö. We continued trough Ekerö and Munsö and another ferry to get to Adelsö. The toughest part was the narrow road up to the place where the stone would stand during the carving in the runestoneshop. Everything went fine and after a while the big stone had taken its rightful place.

The block leaves the ferry to Adelsö.	Here the 8,5 ton runestone- material is put in place.	Early spring and the carving can begin.

Before a runestone can be carved, a rune inscription and ornamentation must be decided.
Information about the ornamentation and the hedgehog here >>>

The rune inscription was commonly decided by the living in "Runstenen" and is as follows:
Living of many cultures in the tenant-owners' society Runstenen let rais stone to commemorate
forty good years. Let comfort continue and peace on earth. Kalle carved.

The work can begin

23 june - The edge lines are being carved
Almost the entire ornamentation is now painted on the stone. I have already began to carve along the edge where the stone is most fragile.

If anything should go wrong here I can still correct the rest of the ornamentation.

30 june - Bridge and a dragons head
On the Tuesday the society will come on their first visit. Because of the stones height it's hard to se the ornamentation from the ground, so I've built a bridge to make it easier for them. The edge lines and the dragonhead are done. All carved lines will be painted black so it can be seen more easily by the visitors.

2 july - Visit 1 out of 3
With a hired bus the visitors arrive at Hovgården. I take them on a Historic Tour trough Hovgården and show them the viking kings runestone, U11. After the tour they have some coffee and with satisfied bellies we continue the journey to their own runestone in Lindby, about 2 km south.

With pictures, paintings and a partly carved runestone I inform about how the work is going and how it's planed to proceed. During their visit a part of the dragons neck gets carved.

10 - 17 july - The Ornamentation takes shape As soon as I've carved a bit I paint the carved line so that the work can be seen more easily.

A close up of the tails end of the snake before the carved line is painted.	A picture in direct light of the newly carved and partly painted snake.	The hole lower part of the ornamentation is now complete.

28 july - Visit 2 out of 3 - We visit Birka

The tenant-owners' society took their members on a new adventure. We took a Historic Tour that continued onto Birka.	Here we are at Borg, Birka garrison and defense. A big flat rock by the entrance to Borg got a lot of attention.	Well back on Adelsö we continued to their runestone where the 114 runes had been painted. As a lesson in carving, the first rune, B, was carved.

15 aug - Visit 3 out of 3 - Once again we visit Hovgården and Birka. Today's visit included both a historic tour in Hovgården and a visit at Birka.
During today's excursion we saw a superb theatric performance of "Sigurd Faffnersbane" (a saga in Nordic mythology) that was played by Kompani bastard outside the Birka museum.		When we got back to Adelsö the visitors inspected their runestone and I even got some help to carve by Kurt Jansson.

The last of the ornamentation and runes were carved today. No matter what happens, from today the world's got a new runestone.		What's left is to carve the hedgehog and to paint everything. The 31 of august the runestone has to be done. Then it's suppose to be
It's journey towards the future has now began.		uncovered in conjuction with the societys 40-year celebration at 12 o'clock am in Haninge.

27 aug - The hedgehog is now done
Tonight the last of the hedgehog was carved.
When darkness came it had even been painted and I am pleased with the result. It became a nice little fellow that during Saturdays celebration got the name "rune".

Runstenens igelkott - Klicka för förstorad bild

CONCLUSION
The 30 of august The runestone is transported back to Haninge Friday morning, the same man that had transported the 8,5 ton block to Adelsö on the 16 of April now came to get a completed runestone full of ornamentation, a hedgehog and 114 runes.
The runestone boards the ferry from Adelsö.	Carefully the stone is raised into position.	A hole is dug for the information sign.	The information is shown from the best view.

The 31 of august The runestone is initialized and the 40-year celebration can begin...! When the stone had been initialized and a speech had been given, mead was poured over the tip of the stone. Its journey in present time and into the future has now began. We sat ourselves done in a big tent in the park where a pig, roasted hole, was ready to be served.			The runestone Big picture >
Uncovering and speech for a wide audience.	The runestone initialized with tasteful mead.	A roasted pig and some jokers were next.

----------The HSB runestone