which is about one kilometer east of Lövstalöt, Uppland, Sweden. This runic inscription consists of runic text carved on a serpent that circles a center...
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Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens Uppland Runic Inscription 1014 with Viking interlaced animal, Uppland, Sweden, attributed to the runemaster Öpir...
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Valkyrie (section Runic inscriptions)
throughout the poetry of skalds, in a 14th-century charm, and in various runic inscriptions. The Old English cognate term wælcyrge appears in several Old English...
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Vikings (section Runic alphabet usage in modern times)
of Uppland has the highest concentration with as many as 1,196 inscriptions in stone, whereas Södermanland is second with 391. The majority of runic inscriptions...
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Öpir (section Signed inscriptions)
Uppland, but there are stones made by him also in Gästrikland and Södermanland. It is a characteristic of his runestones that there is a single rune serpent...
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there are rune stones, but the inscriptions are mostly short. A good deal of the vocabulary, morphology, and phonology of the runic inscriptions (little...
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Æthelred to flee the country. When Æthelred was restored to power in England in 1014, after the death of Swein, he retained or regained the services of Thorkell...
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Birka (category Uppland)
seldom buried with identifiable grave goods. List of runestones Uppland Runic Inscription 6 on display in Birka's museum Price, T. Douglas; Arcini, Caroline;...
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Judith Jesch, Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2001), p. 88. Ullidtz, Per...
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probably in England; educated at the schools of Bremen (shortly?) after 1014 (when his sponsor first became a 'bishop of the Norwegians'); served as court-bishop...
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