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Someone has made an online map to track all the runestones you have visited. It’s new, so it has some minor issues, but it seems pretty neat.
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Waiting for a seminar on the world’s oldest runestone.
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I updated all the runestone pages to use proper fonts for the inscription and transliteration on VarangianBiker.com and it looks so much better now.
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I spent the afternoon riding my motorcycle to visit two runestones. The stones stand right next to each other in the middle of the woods and are only accessible via a small path. I didn’t feel like taking my big motorcycle on it, so I had to walk 20 minutes to get to the stones.
The stones are Sö 34 and Sö 35.
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After the runology day about Erik Brate on Thursday there was a walk looking at houses where he lived. It ended by the gravestone of the runologist Liljegren.
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I’m at an all-day conference on the runologist Erik Brate.
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I’ve signed up for an entire day of seminars about the Swedish runologist Erik Brate in May.
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I sorted all the runestone pictures on my phone into a separate album for each stone. And a folder for each region. There are pictures for 100 runestones. I have pictures from more stones, but they are on an external harddrive.
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Here’s my shelf with books on runestones, old norse, viking history and viking religion. It’s exactly 1 meter long, which is oddly satisfying. Is it time to stop buying new books now?
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I just had a look at my spreadsheet of runestones. It seems that I’ve visited 103 runestones so far. I restructured the spreadsheet to just have one big list of all runestones with dynamic views instead of separate sheets for each group. It should make it easier to keep track of them.
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I need to do some digital archaeology to dig up my old web page about the Frösö runestone and add it to the Varangian Biker site.
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I just got back home after an all day trip around lake Mälaren on my motorcycle. I stopped west of Västerås to visit the runestones Vs 9 and Vs 10. They are pair stones raised next to a bridge.
Vs 10 only has ornamentation in form of an intricate rune animal, with no runes at all.
Vs 9 is bigger and has runes in a band on the front. In the middle at the top is a cross. It is raised by Gisl, who made a bridge in memory of his son Ösrl who died in England. The inscription ends with a christian prayer.
Transliteration of the runes:
× kisl × lit × kera × buru × eftʀ × osl × sun × sin × han u(a)[rþ] × tyþr × a eklati × kuþ ialbi × has × ont auk × seluNormalization:
Gisl let gærva bro æftiʀ Asl/Ôsl, sun sinn. Hann varð dauðr a Ænglandi. Guð hialpi hans and ok selu.Translation:
Gísl had the bridge made in memory of Ásl/Ôsl, his son. He died in England. May God help his spirit and soul. -
I had a great time playing some #boardgames tonight with a couple of old friends. First up was Robo Rally, and then we followed up with a game of Betrayal at the House on the Hill. It’s such a weird quirky game.
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This is another page where Edward Blom helps you know what time of year it is. On the page https://fårjagätasemla.nu Edward will tell you if he thinks you are allowed to eat the Swedish pastry Semla.
The answer is usually no, except for the week leading up to fat tuesday when it was traditionally eaten.
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Am I allowed to eat a “semla” now? Edward Blom has the answer!
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Idag fick jag hem Martin Ackerfors nya roman Låt barnen dansa. Jag ser fram emot att läsa den. Man ska ju inte döma en bok efter omslaget, men jag gillar den enkla designen och strukturen på pappret.
Läs mer på https://www.ackerfors.se
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I cleaned my vintage Parker Duofold fountain pen I bought second hand a few of months ago. The nib is now shining gold. Before cleaning it was so dirty it was hard to tell what metal the nib was made of.
I just used water to flush it, and let it soak for a few hours. Then I polished the nib with a gold cloth.
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Finally taking the time to read Runes A Handbook by Michael P. Barnes.
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Here’s my build of the Bambu Lab Marble Run 003 kit. It’s printed in Polymaker PolyTerra PLA filament. It looks great, but it seems to be a bit too rough and the motor isn’t able to run the machine.
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The Swedish tabletop RPG web forum Rollspel.nu I founded almost 26 years ago is still going strong even though I haven't been involved for years.
They just released a book commemorating the 25th anniversary. It's available for purchase here:
https://webshop.publit.com/webshop/5469/9789176117163/rollspel-nu-och-da-jubileumsskrift-med-anledning-av-forumets-25-ariga-tillvaroI was interviewed for the book, and helped a bit in digging up old information on the early years.
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I’m drinking my first pumpkin spice latte. I’m not a big fan, mostly because it’s sweet. The spice is ok.
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I got a quick look at the new Prusa Core One released yesterday. It looks amazing. Can’t wait to receive mine.
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I just finished writing about 1300 words about the viking age runestone U 785 at Tillinge church west of Enköping. It is made of gray granite and is 1.7 meters tall and 0.8-1 meter wide. The inscription is inside a serpent with a head seen from the side. There is no cross on the stone, even though the inscription has a Christian prayer.
It has been raised after a man called Gudmund who died in Serkland. Possibly during the viking expedition by Ingvar the Far-Travelled or another expedition to the same area near the Caspian Sea. It is also possible that he worked as a varangian guard in the Byzantine empire.
The transliteration of the inscription is:
uifas-- ... : risa : s(t)in : þ(t)ino : ub : at : k-þmunt : bruþur : sin : han : uarþ : tuþr : a : srklant- kuþ halbi : ant : ansTranslated into English:
Vifast had the stone raised up after Gudmund, his brother. He died in Serkland. God help his soul. -
This is the runestone U 778 that is placed in the inner wall of the church porch of Svinnegarn church near Enköping. In the 17th century it was found used as a threshold stone in the main entrance to the church, with most of the inscription hidden under the doorjamb. In 1853-1854 it was removed from the church door and mounted into the wall of the church porch instead by Dybeck.
The stone has all four common runic formulas, it starts with a memorial formula about Banki/Bagge, followed by a biographical formula, a prayer and ends with a carver signature. The runes are younger futhark long branch runes. The /s/ in sun has a chair form, instead of the standard form that is used for all other /s/ runes in the inscription. This might be a mistake, since the lower part of the stem is thinner and shallower than the rest of the lines.
Poor Banki/Bagge was part of the catastrophic viking raid led by Ingvar in 1041, that is described in the Icelandic saga Yngvarr saga víðförla. The stone is one of at least 30 runestones describing this raid that ended so disastrously.The inscription has 116 runes:
ᚦᛁᛅᛚᚠᛁ × ᛅᚢᚴ × ᚼᚢᛚᛘᚾᛚᛅᚢᚴ × ᛚᛁᛏᚢ × ᚱᛅᛁᛋᛅ × ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾᛅ ᚦᛁᛋᛅ × ᛅᛚᛅ × ᛅᛏ ᛒᛅᚴᛅ × ᛋᚢᚾ ᛋᛁᚾ × ᛁᛋ ᛅᛏᛁ × ᛅᛁᚾ × ᛋᛁᚱ × ᛋᚴᛁᛒ × ᛅᚢᚴ × ᛅᚢᛋᛏᚱ × ᛋᛏᚢᚱᚦᛁ × ᛁ × ᛁᚴᚢᛅᚱᛋ × ᛚᛁᚦ × ᚴᚢᚦ ᚼᛁᛅᛚᛒᛁ × ᚯᛏ × ᛒᛅᚴᛅ × ᛅᛋᚴᛁᛚ × ᚱᛅᛁᛋᛏThe translitteration:
þialfi × auk × hulmnlauk × litu × raisa × staina þisa × ala × at baka × sun sin × is ati × ain × sir × skib × auk × austr × st(u)[rþi ×] i × ikuars × liþ × kuþ hialbi × ot × baka × ask(i)l × raistNormalization:
Þjalfi ok Holmlaug létu reisa steina þessa alla at Banka/Bagga, son sinn. Er átti einn sér skip ok austr stýrði í Ingvars lið. Guð hjalpi ǫnd Banka/Bagga. Áskell reist.English translation:
Þjalfi and Holmlaug had all of these stones raised in memory of Banki/Baggi, their son, who alone owned a ship and steered to the east in Ingvarr's retinue. May God help Banki's/Baggi's spirit. Áskell carved. -
A few photos from the talk with the swordsmith Peter Johnsson. After the talk we got to look at a few swords he had brought with him. The bronze sword was really nice.
He does swordsmithing courses every spring and fall. I’m tempted to sign up, but it’s pretty long, and requires bringing your own blade material. Or spend two more days ahead of the course to make it.
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A few photos from the talk with the swordsmith Peter Johnsson. After the talk we got to look at a few swords he had brought with him. The bronze sword was really nice.
He does swordsmithing courses every spring and fall. I’m tempted to sign up, but it’s pretty long, and requires bringing your own blade material. Or spend two more days ahead of the course to make it.
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A few photos from the talk with the swordsmith Peter Johnsson. After the talk we got to look at a few swords he had brought with him. The bronze sword was really nice.
He does swordsmithing courses every spring and fall. I’m tempted to sign up, but it’s pretty long, and requires bringing your own blade material. Or spend two more days ahead of the course to make it.
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A few photos from the talk with the swordsmith Peter Johnsson. After the talk we got to look at a few swords he had brought with him. The bronze sword was really nice.
He does swordsmithing courses every spring and fall. I’m tempted to sign up, but it’s pretty long, and requires bringing your own blade material. Or spend two more days ahead of the course to make it.
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It’s been a year since the 25th anniversary book about the Swedish RPG website and forum Rollspel.nu was released. I haven’t been involved in the site since 2011, but it’s still going strong. I read a few chapters before it was published, but I just bought my own copy.
It’s crazy that a site I started 25 years ago is still running, and that they’ve published a book about themselves. They even received an award for best RPG related book by the Swedish RPG magazine Fenix.
My favorites in the book is the early history of the site told as a saga by @martinackerfors and the story by the prolific Swedish RPG author Anders Blixt about how the site was his connection to Sweden when he was stationed in Afghanistan. I choked up when he told me that story in person a few years ago.
The book is in Swedish and is available as a downloadable PDF here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z027Owk0fPHJMZMfnGu9Z7CQD514KJdD/view?usp=sharingA physical version of the book can be purchased here;
https://webshop.publit.com/webshop/5469/9789176117163/rollspel-nu-och-da-jubileumsskrift-med-anledning-av-forumets-25-ariga-tillvaro -
I’ve done a tracing of the Vadstena bracteate and ordered it printed on a pillow case.