The impressive Viking runestones of the Swedish countryside, 1899-1945

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Remnants of the glorious Viking past are scattered throughout the countryside of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Particularly in Sweden’s Uppland province, there are thousands of stones carved with runic inscriptions dating from the Bronze Age up to modern times. Runestones were most commonly raised as memorials to deceased relatives and friends, but they were not […]

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