Grundweall
[[Ymele:Aachen Bonifatiuskirche Detail.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Grundweall mid ærenum biliþa]]
The '''grundweall''' is se forma stān gesetted in þǣm timbre of stænen staðole.  Hefig in þǣm timbre is þes stān forþǣm þe eall ōðran stānas sind gesetted be þissum stāne and he arǣdeð þæs boldes stede.

<!--Over time a cornerstone became a [[ceremony|ceremonial]] masonry stone, or [[replica]], set in a prominent location on the outside of a building, with an inscription on the stone indicating the construction dates of the building and the names of [[architect]], [[Construction worker|builder]], and other significant individuals. The rite of laying a cornerstone is an important cultural component of eastern [[architecture]] and metaphorically in [[sacred architecture]] generally.

Some cornerstones include [[time capsule]]s from, or engravings commemorating, the time a particular building was built.

==Stǣr==
[[Ymele:DCJCC cornerstone ceremony.jpg|thumb|Grundweall gescrīf in 1925 for þǣm Hwessingatun D.C. Iudeiscum Folcstede]]
Oft the ceremony involved the placing of [[Sacrifice|offerings]] of [[cereal|grain]], [[wine]] and [[oil]] on or under the stone. These were symbolic of the produce and the people of the land and the means of their subsistence. This in turn derived from the practice in still more ancient times of making an animal or human<ref>{{Citation | last = Jarvis | first = William E. | authorlink = | title = Time Capsules: A Cultural History | publisher = McFarland & Company | year = 2002 | location = | page = 105 | url = | doi =  | isbn = 978-0-7864-1261-7 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Hastings | first = James | authorlink = | author2 = Selbie, John Alexander; Gray, Louis Herbert | title = Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. VI. | publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons | year = 1914 | location = New York | page = 863 | url = | doi =  | isbn = }}</ref> [[sacrifice]] that was laid in the foundations.

Frazer (2006: p.&nbsp;106-107) in ''[[The Golden Bough]]'' charts the various propitiary sacrifices and [[effigy]] substitution such as the [[shadow (psychology)|shadow]], states that:
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Nowhere, perhaps, does the equivalence of the shadow to the life or soul come out more clearly than in some customs practised to this day in South-eastern Europe. In modern Greece, when the foundation of a new building is being laid, it is the custom to kill a cock, a ram, or a lamb, and to let its blood flow on the foundation-stone, under which the animal is afterwards buried. The object of the sacrifice is to give strength and stability to the building. But sometimes, instead of killing an animal, the builder entices a man to the foundation-stone, secretly measures his body, or a part of it, or his shadow, and buries the measure under the foundation-stone; or he lays the foundation-stone upon the man's shadow. It is believed that the man will die within the year. The Roumanians of Transylvania think that he whose shadow is thus [[Immurement|immured]] will die within forty days; so persons passing by a building which is in course of erection may hear a warning cry, Beware lest they take thy shadow! Not long ago there were still shadow-traders whose business it was to provide architects with the shadows necessary for securing their walls. In these cases the measure of the shadow is looked on as equivalent to the shadow itself, and to bury it is to bury the life or soul of the man, who, deprived of it, must die. Thus the custom is a substitute for the old practice of immuring a living person in the walls, or crushing him under the foundation-stone of a new building, in order to give strength and durability to the structure, or more definitely in order that the angry ghost may haunt the place and guard it against the intrusion of enemies.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SmSqmPSFzw8C&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=foundation+stone+animal+sacrifice&source=web&ots=fFOI4DYYSs&sig=Pwhc7VJHcOIvIHaQITGFiWOBmww |title=The Golden Bough - James George Frazer - Google Boeken |publisher=Books.google.com |accessdate=2013-11-07}}</ref>
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Ancient Japan legends talk about [[Hitobashira]] (人柱, "human pillar"), in which maidens were buried alive at the base or near some constructions as a prayer to ensure the buildings against disasters or enemy attacks.
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The grundweall is se forma stān gesetted in þǣm timbre of stænen staðole.  Hefig in þǣm timbre is þes stān forþǣm þe eall ōðran stānas sind gesetted be þissum stāne and he arǣdeð þæs boldes stede.