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I’ve added a carver signature on the back side of the stone now.
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I’ve carved all the runes now. I couldn’t fit the entire text I had planned since the stone was tok small.
It says: ᛆᚿᛆᚴᛆᚱᛁᚿᛚᛁᛐᚱᛆᛁᛋᛆᛆᛐᚢᚴᛚᛆᛋ
Transliteration: anakarin lit raisa at|tuklas
I still have to make the grooves deeper in some places and try to straighten some staves.
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That’s two out of three rows done, including the bands. I’m going to take a break now, and finish the last row later. I will also have to go through all the runes again to make them deeper.
Listening to viking metal and carving runes.
I decided to skip one runestone, M 13 in Oxsta, as it was out in the woods and very damaged.
The runestone M 10 stands behind the church ruin in Selånger. The church was from 13th century and had the original copy of the Hälsinge law. The runestone was found in the wall of the ruin during a restoration in 1928. The stone is partially damaged.
A few minutes ride away is the M 10 runestone in Högom that stands near four large gravemounds from the 6th century. The stone is bluish black, with runes around the edges. There is a cross in the middle. Gunnviðr and Þorgærð raised the stone after their son Þorstæin.
I visited five runestones today, and now the ride is over for this time. In total ai visited 18 runestones over four days. With a two day break for the axe smithing course.
I’ve looked at three runestones in four hours. Now I’m eating lunch and filling up on water. There are three more runestones to look at here north of Sundsvall, and I have about three hours to do it as it’s going to take me about three more hours to get to my final destination for the night.
M 15 and M 16 are two small runestones that stand next to Sköns church just north of Sundsvall. They are both easy to read with well preserved inscriptions and the paint has not faded.
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M 14 is in a small village on a gravel road north west of Sundsvall. Some parts of the inscription at the top of the stone has weathered away and is impossible to read.
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The final runestone of the day was M 1, also called the Nolby stone. It’s a fairly small runestone, but is in very good condition.
The stone is carved by Fartegn. It’s raised by Bergsvæinn, Sigfastr, and Friði in memory of their father Bure.
It got late, so I drove to the hostel I’m staying at on back roads.
So far I’ve looked at three runestones today. I’ll at least look at one more, but maybe more.
The first one was Hs 21 at Jättendal church which unfortunately was very weathered after years in a church wall, then as a stepping stone in the church, and now as a bench outside.
After that I visited the small fragment M 2 by the church in Njurunda.
After that I ventured out into overgrown fields to look at M 3. It was hard to get to, and I forgot to bring my action camera.
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The other runestone at Hälsingtuna church is Hs 10, a giant runestone carved with staveless runes. The carver is Bruse Åsbjörnsson.
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At Hälsingtuna church there are two runestones. This is Hs 9, a smaller fragment that stands next to a red building outside the churchyard. Only the words ”after Torsten su(n)” are visible.
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The second runestone at Högs church is Hs 12 which has staveless runes. The runes are in band circling around the stone and ending in a cross in the middle.
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Yet another runestone by Åsmund Kåresson. It’s been split in two pieces and mended, as it has been inserted into the wall of Valbo church. The stone is three meters high but only 85 cm wide.
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The runestone U 1144 stands next to U 1143 in the churchyard of Tierp church. It is carved by the prolific runestone carver Åsmund Kåresson. There is some damage in the top right corner of stone.
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A five minute ride from Hälsingtuna church is Högs church where there are another two runestones.
This is Hs 11, which is quite narrrow and damaged on the left side. It’s signed by the carvers Alver and Brand. There is a cross at bottom, and the runes are inside a snake with the head at the top.
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This large runestone is Gs 11 that stands in Järvsta just outside of Gävle. It is also carved by Åsmund Kåresson. It’s about 2 meters high and is the only runestone in Gästrikland to still stand in its original place.
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The runestone U 1143 at Tierp church is believed to be a stone raised after the disastrous viking expedition to the Caspian sea by Ingvar the Far-Travelled.
I visited the stone a couple of years ago when I made my video about the Ingvar runestones, but as I was passing by I decided to stop and make 3D scans and take more videos.
I’ve depleted all the batteries in my action camera, drone, and helmet intercom. That’s it for today’s motorcycle runestone safari. Tomorrow and on Saturday I’m doing a axe smithing course. On Sunday and Monday I might visit more runestones, depending on the weather.
That makes nine runestones in two days. U1143, U1144, Gs 11, Gs 12, Hs 2, Hs 11, Hs 12, Hs 9, and Hs 10.
A new mysterious runestone perpetrated in the early 1800s by a Swedish employee of the Hudson's Bay Company
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/archeological-discovery-runestone-northern-ontario-1.7558069
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CBCMysterious carving found in northern Ontario wilderness | CBC NewsSeven years after it was discovered in the northern Ontario bush near the town of Wawa, a carving in the bedrock remains an archaeological, mystery. But plans are in the works to develop it into a tourist attraction.
