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Every stone with a text telling who is behind is marking that a certain family owned the land. The Ramund stone is very rare and says directly that Ramund owns land worth 2 aure.

Most of the early runic texts are just telling "Kilroy was here". However about eight and ninth centuries we have a few stones telling about clans and perhaps owners of private property. From the Malsta stone we can count backwards in the family tree and decide that this counting began about 800 AD. It may be indicating new inheritance codes

Still we have to take into account that manifold gave different kinds of owning. Some places were owned by families and perhaps with democracy in the lead. Others might have been lead by an old lady. However the normal in Vaestergautland and Norway become the patriarchal system and the oldest son leads the clan. On Dal the farms in brotherhood were common too.

The Sparlausa stone is somewhere in between the old ritual system and private owning. The texts seem to have been done at three or four occasions. The stone looks like a stela and the pictures refer partly to old myths in the sky. Perhaps the four sides are the seasons.

 I interpret only the parts I am sure about in italic. The others are in CAPITALS.

In the old symbolism the mask was the ANSUR/Ras was probably the leading face, but also face of Underworld and fertility.

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father STU ATH AI AI VI-IPA

.LNE VI AS NO TU AUK TAKAR

ASLSIK ULUIR UK TH STAI UISL

We may guess that the text in capitals is about Candlemas.

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The owl-swan-side is a logic following and later than the former.

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VI

VI KVISL KLIVI VI

... UKR SAR SKS NU I BAN

(This is) Vi

The symbolism and the words are about the moon year. The Vi gave even the name "vising" meaning the ritual leader I suppose.

On the fourth side is a man lifting something, which is much alike the ship lifter on rock carvings

There are two short texts:

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The last text is:

We may expect that after that they kept memory of the owners. In thirteenth century one man owned the entire villages too.

The Vi was perhaps hard to understand for the first English and German monks. Or else it did not fit in the programme to learn the wild Scandinavians about Christ in Latin. So law forbade these and the hargs. Anyhow on the very holy place of the foundation of Denmark they have found a Vi. It is simply two strings of stones in V-shape with the wing in 23,5 degrees' angle or 1/16 of the circle.

We see that the mounds are on the median. The shape may us think about the figures on the Jute horn from Gallehus.

This foundation was simply used in spring when deciding the first full or new moon after the spring equinox.

The Tibirke Vi is on the map from 1793 although we do not know for how long the local farmers used the tradition. Yet, maybe sand took the vi later as there were heavy sandstorms.

The Tingsted Vi is on Falster and thing was hold there until 1720. It was still on the map from 1784. Some of the big mounds have no graves and they were perhaps only meant for the thing. We may speculate if they as a ritual buried the time as some manifestos of the beginning or ending of an era.

Lastly about the old time and age-system just before the church took over the ritual part including keeping hold of the year.

On the reverse of some early Danish and Swedish coins from the eleventh century we see what should be a Vi.

However, the early church had of course the same symbols. For an example in a poem by bishop Orientus of Auch in fifth century verse 7 in Alma Chorus domini ... Janua, Virgo, Virtus, Sapientia, Verbum. Intoned in Latin it perhaps sounded like a shaman's song. In plain English it is Beginning, The Maiden, the Man, Insight, Preaching ... I believe.

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That about that ... the rest about "It and how it will last".