"Rest-stone" - Tombstones in Paradise Hills in Ibsker"
Here they paused, eating and drinking, when a funeral procession walked from Klinteby to Ibsker church with the coffin.

Rest Stone mentioned in the audio clip, is located on the road between Klinteby Kodal in Ibsker Parish
- More specifically in the Paradise Hills on Bornholm. It is a stone of Svaneke granite approx. 10 tons.
It has its name because they used to put the coffin on when a funeral procession stopped to rest on the way to church.
According to ancient beliefs may coffin not stand on the ground.
It is a flat stone of approx. 3x2x1 meter - east side of the road by a road-brake the road to Ibs Church approx. two kilometers north of Klinteby
- If you come good on the NS-through road in Paradise Hills and follow the north, you pass at a time the tombstone.

The road was formerly called "Lyngvejen" "The Moor Road" and was a road that was frequently used.
This path shows clear signs that it has been a fortified road.
An edge of walking the block is cut out. This can be done by freezing or a machine that is too close to the forest work around 1980.
The surface is filled with cracks in a grid-pattern, but quite smooth

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Click here to hear the story in Ibsker language. The audio clip duration: 1:16 minutes.
Dialect is from Ibsker on Bornholm. the guy who is speaking was born in 1906, recording 1973.

Text of the audio clip on the rest stone in Ibsker:

... It is such a large, flat stone , it is three times as large as the table here well.
And it is in the road coming over from Klinteby and go over to Kodal.
And there went the words legend in the old days - the Cliff-villagers - they belonged to Ibsker Parish and Ibsker Church,
so that when they died they would have been carried to Ibsker ,
so they carried the dead people it in such a bearing - and then
they rested there - on the tombstone. And then they had the food in the basket
- Brandy bottles, of course.
They were supposed to have them e drink to strengthen them.
And then they walked further, for they had not put the coffin on the ground.
- One could believe that the underground kept for at the sites.
- I see - they did , the old thought of it there as - yes they did. And the man he lived always out there.
He was the one who tore the dead cattle and slaughtered horses (and) something
- He was not supposed to stay in the infield, he should stay on the heather - the moor.
He had an old heather hut out there.
Father he could remember what he said
- Knew where he had lived. And - so when he took communion, he must not drink
- For the time they drank the (outward) the same cup all well but he had to drink outward foot on the cup
- He must not drink at it there, he was (- impure) .

Here ....... stop the audio clip a bit abrupt - but the story continues as folowing:

- Yes, he was unclean, yes. So when [that when] he came to Svaneke once and should act
- So - and the time they were of course like always snaps when they came into the grocery store (and) had to act well .
Then of course it is
- Such a hangman and yes - and so
- What they donated's just in the same glass to all, yes. And then
- He was indeed a sup, and then have the next garden.
Then he said, "I shall not drink outwards the glass as he drank outward "

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2014-04-14