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    The Hällestad Runestones are three runestones located in the walls of Hällestad Church in Torna-Hällestad, about 20 kilometers east of Lund in Skåne,...
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    The Karlevi Runestone, the Egtved Runestone and the Hällestad Runestones may be connected to it. The Sjörup Runestone has been known by scholars since...
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    Thingmen (section Runestones)
    members are commemorated on runestones, such as the Viking Runestones and the England Runestones. One example is the Komstad Runestone which was raised in memory...
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  • father named Toki. There is also a runestone at Aars, which once marked the cairn of "Valtóki". The Hällestad Runestones: DR 295 is raised by Áskell, a retainer...
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    Three runestones from this time, the Högby Runestone ("the brave champion Asmund fell on the Fyrisvellir"), one of the Hällestad Runestones, labelled...
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    Hällestad Church (Swedish: Hällestads kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church in Torna Hällestad in the province of Scania, Sweden. It belongs to the Diocese...
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    golden bracelet. Runestones are counted as historic documents about the events of the Viking Age in Scandinavia. The following four runestones mention people...
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    Torna Hällestad (pronunciation) is a locality situated in Lund Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 584 inhabitants in 2010. The town church, dating...
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    inscription to a group of warrior band inscriptions, i.e. the Hällestad Runestones and the Sjörup Runestone, which are connected to the Jomsvikings and the legendary...
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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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    Aars stone (category Runestones in Denmark)
    Fýrisvellir near Uppsala; Danish Runic Inscription 295, one of the Hällestad Runestones, also commemorates his death. "Års-sten". Danske Runeindskrifter...
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    Stone of Eric (category Runestones in memory of Viking warriors)
    he was a captain, a very good valiant man. List of runestones Sædinge Runestone Sigtrygg Runestones Jesch, Judith (2001). Ships and Men in the Late Viking...
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    when they attacked Sweden, and only those who fled survived. The runestones of Hällestad and Sjörup in Scania, then a part of Denmark, do mention a battle...
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