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Description: Red dots indicate locations of runestones that refer to men who were Viking warriors and/or died while travelling in the West: U 349, U 363, U 504, U 611, U 668, Sö 14, Sö 53, Sö 62, Sö 106, Sö 137, Sö 159, Sö 164, Sö 173, Sö 217, Sö 260, Sö 319,
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The Elder Futhark rune ᛉ is conventionally called Algiz or Elhaz, from the Common Germanic word for "elk". [citation needed]There is wide agreement that this is most likely not the historical name of the rune, but in the absence of any positive evidence of what the historical name may have been, the conventional name is simply based on a reading of the rune name in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem ...
Although runes are often associated with magic, most scholars no longer believe that runes were in and of themselves regarded as magical. [379] Migration-age inscriptions on bracteates and later rune stones contain a number of early magical words and formulas, the best attested of which, alu, is found on multiple objects from 200 to 700 CE. [380]
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