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    18°02′E / 59.483°N 18.033°E / 59.483; 18.033 At Broby bro in Uppland, Sweden there are six runestones. U 139, U 140 and U 151 still stand by the road...
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  • Broby can mean: Broby municipality in Denmark Nørre Broby - a town in Broby municipality Broby, Sweden - a town in Östra Göinge, Sweden Broby bro Runestones...
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  • Inscription 99 Sjörup Runestone Hyby Runestones (DR 264 and DR 265) Färentuna Runestones (U 20, U 21 and U 22) Broby bro Runestones (U 135, U 136 and U...
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    erecting runestones as a memorial to dead men began in the 4th century and lasted into the 12th century, but the majority of the extant runestones date from...
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    The Jarlabanke Runestones (Swedish: Jarlabankestenarna) is the name of about 20 runestones written in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark rune script in...
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    Vikings (section Runestones)
    parallel with the Latin alphabet. The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia: Denmark has 250 runestones, Norway has 50 while Iceland has none...
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  • Copenhagen Gothenburg Stockholm The Greece runestones (Swedish: Greklandsstenarna) are about 30 runestones containing information related to voyages made...
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    Estrid (category Runestones, Estrid)
    other runestones. This would mean that Estrid was born in Snottsta (also spelled Snåttsta) as the daughter of the rich landowner Sigfast. The Broby bro Runestones...
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  • Gothenburg Stockholm The Hakon Jarl runestones are Swedish runestones from the time of Canute the Great. Two of the runestones, one in Uppland (U 617) and one...
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  • The Viking runestones are runestones that mention Scandinavians who participated in Viking expeditions. This article treats the runestone that refer to...
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  • Copenhagen Gothenburg Stockholm The Ingvar runestones (Swedish: Ingvarstenarna) is the name of around 26 Varangian Runestones that were raised in commemoration...
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    Jelling stones (category Runestones in Denmark)
    runes. The Jelling stones (Danish: Jellingstenene) are massive carved runestones from the 10th century, found at the town of Jelling in Denmark. The older...
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    Oslo Copenhagen Stockholm The Varangian Runestones are runestones in Scandinavia that mention voyages to the East (Old Norse: Austr) or the Eastern route...
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  • Oslo Copenhagen Stockholm The England runestones (Swedish: Englandsstenarna) are a group of about 30 runestones in Scandinavia which refer to Viking Age...
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    77556°E / 58.29500; 14.77556 The Rök runestone (Swedish: Rökstenen; Ög 136) is one of the most famous runestones, featuring the longest known runic inscription...
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    runestones called the Jarlabanke Runestones that are connected to the local strongman Jarlabanke and his clan. Together with the Broby bro Runestones...
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  • It is one of few surviving runestones with exclusively pagan illustrations from Norse mythology. Most surviving runestones were raised during the 11th...
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    The Lingsberg Runestones are two 11th-century runestones, listed as U 240 and U 241 in the Rundata catalog, and one fragment, U 242, that are engraved...
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    benefit of the runestone raiser. The Manx runestones are consequently similar to the Scandinavian ones, but whereas a Norwegian runestone is called "stone"...
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  • runic inscriptions. The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way for future research. The database is freely...
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  • Oslo Copenhagen Gothenburg Stockholm The Italy runestones are three or four Varangian runestones from 11th-century Sweden that tell of warriors who died...
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    Tullstorp was torn down in 1846. Before the historical significance of runestones was understood, they were often used as materials in the construction...
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    Thor's hammer, or Mjöllnir. Other surviving runestones or inscriptions depicting Thor's hammer include runestones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 86 in Åby, Sö 111 in...
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    to Iberia and thence to Italy. Three or four eleventh-century Swedish Runestones mention Italy, memorialising warriors who died in 'Langbarðaland', the...
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  • Oslo Copenhagen Gothenburg Stockholm The Baltic area runestones are Viking runestones in memory of men who took part in peaceful or warlike expeditions...
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    special runic forms, the same message is given on the Stentoften Runestone. These runestones are probably not carved by the same person, and so it appears...
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  • The Bjärby Runestones are two Viking Age memorial runestones located near Grästorp, Sweden, in Bjärby synod, which was in the historic province of Västergötland...
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    is given on the Stentoften Runestone. The runestones were not carved by the same man, and so it appears that the runestone reflects a specific tradition...
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    the runestone. One or two other runestones in Sweden have similar invocations to Thor: Ög 136 in Rök and possibly Sö 140 at Korpbron. Other runestones in...
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    runestones called the Jarlabanke Runestones that are connected to the local chieftain Jarlabanke and his clan. Together with the Broby bro Runestones...
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