Uppland Runic Inscription 485 or U 485 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located in Marma, which is about six 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...

historic province of Uppland. One of the runic inscriptions documents the existence of a Viking Age mercantile guild in Sweden. The inscription on the runestone...

Rune inscription U 1132, or the Gimo stone, is a rune stone in Gimo, Skäfthammar parish and Östhammar municipality in Uppland. The rune stone now stands...

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...

was that Sweden was already an organized and ancient kingdom (based on Uppland), strong enough to engage in colonial expansion beyond its frontiers. These...