Uppland Runic Inscription 171 information

Uppland Runic Inscription 171 or U 171 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located in Söderby, which is four kilometers...

structures. The runic text is signed by the runemaster Öpir, who was active during the late 11th and early 12th centuries in Uppland. The inscription reads: runa...

on definition. The Swedish district of Uppland has the highest concentration with as many as 1,196 inscriptions in stone, whereas Södermanland is second...

Uppland Runic Inscription 308 or U 308 is the Rundata catalog designation for a memorial runestone that is located in Ekeby, Stockholm County, Sweden...

as runic inscription U 1011, was carved in the 11th century and was originally located at Örby, Rasbo, Sweden. This runestone consists of a runic inscription...

runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock. The tradition...

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...

Arabic coins found in Scandinavia come from Gotland. In Skåne, Öland and Uppland together, about 12,000 coins were found. Other Scandinavian areas have...

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...

German Guard Leidang Pritsak 1981:410 Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, pp. 171–173 Pritsak 1981:386 Although after 1066, the Varangian Guard mostly consisted...

North Germanic peoples, such as runic inscriptions in the Younger Futhark, a distinctly North Germanic extension of the runic alphabet. Numerous Old Norse...

sword is a rare example of a blade inscribed with an Elder Futhark inscription, four runes arranged so that the staves form a cross shape. England the Kent...

appeared c. 2800 BC and is known from about 3,000 graves from Scania to Uppland and Trøndelag. The "battle-axes" were primarily a status object. There...