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    Västergötland Runic Inscription 73 or Vg 73 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located near the Synnerby church...
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  • meaning "boar"). The inscription also shows the only runic appearance of the name of Iceland, while there are five other runic inscriptions in Sweden that mention...
    95 KB (13,604 words) - 06:54, 20 June 2024
  • This the classification for inscriptions with runic band ends which do not have any attached serpent or beast heads. The runic text indicates that it was...
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    province of Västergötland. Västergötland Runic Inscription 55 or Vg 55 is the Rundata designation for an inscription consisting of runic text in the younger...
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    raised by a woman named Þyrvé in memory of her husband Ögmundr. The runic inscription states that he was miok goðan þegn or "a very good thegn". About fifty...
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    today the coat of arms of the municipality of Täby, Sweden One of the runic inscriptions in Hagia Sophia, probably carved by members of the Varangian Guard...
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    Sweden are called Runic Swedish, while the dialects of Denmark are referred to as Runic Danish. The dialects are described as "runic" because the main...
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    Sweden, 7th century AD Möne Collar from Västergötland, Sweden Gold bracteate from Funen, Denmark, with runic inscription to Odin Burial reconstruction, Germany...
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    population of Svealand urged the fervently Christian ruler to withdraw to Västergötland. Snorri, on the other hand, asserts that King Olof's high-handed rule...
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    Futhark inscription reading "He is Odin’s man". Archaeological evidence for Odin is found in the form of his later bynames on Runic inscriptions found in...
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