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    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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    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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    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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    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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