runsten

12 photos and 3 illustrations tagged runsten, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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Rune stone, Svartsjö, Uppland, Sweden

from Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet

  • Sandra said:
    Wow. that is interesting.
  • Иσσич - Delete ;'D said:
    nice pic comment me plz

Rune stone, Jursta, Södermanland, Sweden

from Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet

  • Britt-Marie Sohlström said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sweden before 1945, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • annet said:
    why a snake for decoration ? Or is it 'just' a snake? :-)
  • Thorskegga Thorn said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Viking Art, and we'd love to have this added to the group! Thorskegga
  • Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet said:
    mezze: The snake could possibly have some kind of symbolic meaning (death or eternity might have been suggested), but that's nothing we know for sure. The Viking Age art is actually full of snakes as a motif not only on rune stones. /Anna B.

Rune stone, Västra Ledinge, Uppland, Sweden

from Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet

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  • Madi_no graphics in your comments said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called European heritage and demographics, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • luca meneghel said:
    wow, wonderful
  • grytlappar said:
    Ormulv (snakewolf), now there's a name! So cool. [Note: I think the image is flipped horizontally; the handwriting is backwards.]
  • Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet said:
    grytlappar: Guess it could be confusing with the handwriting... Actually, someone less considerate has written with ink on the emulsion side of the glass plate negative. When scanning the negative correctly, the handwriting is then shown backwards as you have noticed. The text says: "Skederids sn. Uppland" ("Skederid parish, Uppland".) It's quite common to find some kind of writing on the old glass plate negatives. A kind of documentation of how photography was ranked in the archives way back in time = not always so high... /Anna B.
  • Britt-Marie Sohlström said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Runes and runic inscriptions, and we'd love to have this added to the group!