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  2. List of runestones - Wikipedia

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    Ingvar Runestones – 26 Varangian runestones that were raised in commemoration of those who died in the Swedish Viking expedition to the Caspian Sea of Ingvar the Far-Travelled. Serkland Runestones – six or seven runestones which are Varangian Runestones that mention voyages to Serkland, the Old Norse name for the Muslim world in the south.

  3. Category:Runestones - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Runestones" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. Runestone - Wikipedia

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    A runestone from the church of Resmo on Öland has been repainted. It is presently at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. Today, most runestones are painted with falu red, since the colour red makes it easy to discern the ornamentation, and it is appropriate since red paint was also used on runes during the Viking Age. [60]

  5. Category:Runestones by country - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 7 February 2020, at 14:04 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Medieval runes - Wikipedia

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    In fact, one of the last runestones was raised in memory of the archbishop Absalon (d. 1201). [4] Most of the runes in the medieval runic alphabet can be traced back to forms in the Younger Futhark as the runemasters preferred to use, or modify, old runes for new phonemes rather than invent new runes. [5]

  7. Viking runestones - Wikipedia

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    Another runestone raised in memory of a man who died in the same retinue is found in Södermanland, the Råby Runestone. [11] The Kolsta runestone is carved in runestone style Pr3, and it is not older than the mid-11th century as indicated by the use of dotted runes and the use of the ansuz rune for the o phoneme. [10] '

  8. England runestones - Wikipedia

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    The England runestones (Swedish: Englandsstenarna) are a group of about 30 runestones in Scandinavia which refer to Viking Age voyages to England. [1] They constitute one of the largest groups of runestones that mention voyages to other countries, and they are comparable in number only to the approximately 30 Greece Runestones [2] and the 26 Ingvar Runestones, of which the latter refer to a ...

  9. Funbo Runestones - Wikipedia

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    The Funbo runestones constitute a group of four runestones originally from Funbo in the province of Uppland, Sweden, which were raised by members of the same family during the eleventh century. The following presentations show the runic script transliterated into Latin script, together with transcriptions into the Old West Norse and Old East ...