George Square, Edinburgh just outside the University of Edinburgh's Department of Scandinavian Studies. On 22 March 2023 the runestone was officially...

There are about 3,000 runestones in Scandinavia (out of a total of about 6,000 runic inscriptions). The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia:...

Modern-day Denmark has no such runestones, but there is a runestone in Scania which mentions London. There is also a runestone in Norway and a Swedish one...

to replace Edinburgh bandstand in turmoil, The Scotsman, 11 December 2017 City of Edinburgh, The Royal Scots Greys Monument "Edinburgh's forgotten Viking...

remaining tumuli in honour of Viking kings and chieftains, in addition to runestones and other memorials. Some of the most notable of them are at the Borre...

"warrior". Other runestones explicitly mentioning warriors serving the ruler of Kievan Rus' are one of the Skåäng runestones, the Smula runestone and most famously...

Lindworm from the U 871 runestone. U 1163, the Drävle runestone, showing Sigurðr slaying Fáfnir. Jörmungandr on the Altuna Runestone. Sigurd slaying Fafnir...

the local endonyms. Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or Byzantine chronicles. Apardion Aberdeen. Álaborg A Varangian fort near...

Skáldskaparmál. If the rider on horseback on the image on the Böksta Runestone has been correctly identified as Odin, then Geri and Freki are shown taking...

19 July 2013. "Edinburgh, Princes Street Gardens, Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial". Canmore. RCAHMS. Retrieved 2 October 2012. Runestone Project. Society...

Sweden. Literature in Stockholm began during the Viking Age, when numerous runestones were carved in the area due to its importance as a trading hub. However...

instead burying them near where they had been slain. The Downpatrick runestone monument marking the site was erected in March 2003 to mark the 900th...

(England) (1979). Stonehenge and its environs: monuments and land use. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-85224-379-4. Barber, Martyn (2015). Stonehenge...

(2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-1234-5 Forte, A...

the Old English Charms Speculum, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1945), 172-182 List of runestones Magic ring Runic magic Page, Raymond I. (1999). An Introduction to English...

Press. Pálsson, Hermannn; Edwards, Paul (trr.) (1973). Eyrbyggja Saga. Edinburgh: Southside Publishers. ISBN 9780900025075. Fox, Denton; Pálsson, Hermann...

Caroline (2007) Orkney: A Historical Guide. Edinburgh. Birlinn. Scotland Before History - Stuart Piggott, (Edinburgh University Press. 1982) ISBN 0-85224-348-0...

secured and properly investigated. The job was given to the University of Edinburgh's Professor V. Gordon Childe, who travelled to Skara Brae for the first...

over their graves, runestones were raised primarily to memorialise men, with the lives of few women being commemorated by runestones (Sawyer says only...

to Iberia and thence to Italy. Three or four eleventh-century Swedish Runestones mention Italy, memorialising warriors who died in 'Langbarðaland', the...

2001. ISBN 0-670-88990-3 Henry Rink Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1875, p. 310 Hans Christian Gulløv, ed., Grønlands Forhistorie...

suggest it was erected as a memorial. The runestone is now on display at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Outsider artist, poet and musician Adam...

ISBN 978-9189116818. Bek-Pedersen, Karen (2011). The Norns in Old Norse Mythology. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-906716-18-9. Berend, Nora (2007)....

in: Renfrew, Colin (Ed.) The Prehistory of Orkney BC 4000-1000 AD. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-85224-456-8. Johnston, Alfred W. (1896)...

Pictland: Scotland to 795. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-1232-1 Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7...

Jean Cousin (navigator) Jewish Indian theory Kensington Runestone – Faked "Scandinavian" runestone Kon-Tiki expedition – 1947 raft journey from South America...

14°40′E / 67.467°N 14.667°E / 67.467; 14.667 Runestone (remains near original location) Frösö Runestone, Frösö, Sweden 63°11′30″N 14°32′30″E / 63.19167°N...

Marsden, John (2000). Somerled and the emergence of Gaelic Scotland. Edinburgh: John Donald. ISBN 978-1-904607-80-9. Munch, Peter A., ed. (1874). Chronica...

Checkered Game of Life" September 23, 2016 (2016-09-23) 143 2 "Kensington Runestone; Smile! You're Being Hijacked; Harriet the Spy" September 30, 2016 (2016-09-30)...

p. 367. ISBN 0-7225-3599-6. Scotland Before History - Stuart Piggott, Edinburgh University Press 1982, ISBN 0-85224-348-0 Scotland's Hidden History -...