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    George Square, Edinburgh just outside the University of Edinburgh's Department of Scandinavian Studies. On 22 March 2023 the runestone was officially...
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  • 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:...
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    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...
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    Princes Street Gardens (category New Town, Edinburgh)
    to replace Edinburgh bandstand in turmoil, The Scotsman, 11 December 2017 City of Edinburgh, The Royal Scots Greys Monument "Edinburgh's forgotten Viking...
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    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...
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    "warrior". Other runestones explicitly mentioning warriors serving the ruler of Kievan Rus' are one of the Skåäng runestones, the Smula runestone and most famously...
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    Lindworm from the U 871 runestone. U 1163, the Drävle runestone, showing Sigurðr slaying Fáfnir. Jörmungandr on the Altuna Runestone. Sigurd slaying Fafnir...
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    the local endonyms. Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or Byzantine chronicles. Apardion Aberdeen. Álaborg A Varangian fort near...
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    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...
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    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...
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    19 July 2013. "Edinburgh, Princes Street Gardens, Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial". Canmore. RCAHMS. Retrieved 2 October 2012. Runestone Project. Society...
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    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...
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    (England) (1979). Stonehenge and its environs: monuments and land use. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-85224-379-4. Barber, Martyn (2015). Stonehenge...
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    (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...
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  • 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...
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    Caroline (2007) Orkney: A Historical Guide. Edinburgh. Birlinn. Scotland Before History - Stuart Piggott, (Edinburgh University Press. 1982) ISBN 0-85224-348-0...
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    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...
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    over their graves, runestones were raised primarily to memorialise men, with the lives of few women being commemorated by runestones (Sawyer says only...
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  • Press. Pálsson, Hermannn; Edwards, Paul (trr.) (1973). Eyrbyggja Saga. Edinburgh: Southside Publishers. ISBN 9780900025075. Fox, Denton; Pálsson, Hermann...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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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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    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)....
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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 -...
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    Jean Cousin (navigator) Jewish Indian theory Kensington Runestone – Faked "Scandinavian" runestone Kon-Tiki expedition – 1947 raft journey from South America...
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    Key Of Hope, The (1985) text adventure Ringworld (1984) text adventure Runestone (1986) text adventure Talisman (1985) multiplayer turn based "board" game...
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