#runestones — Public Fediverse posts

I went to visit three runestones standing next to each other at Broby bro north of Stockholm. They are all part of the Jarlabanke family stones.

The first one to the left is U 136, which is a pair stone with U 135. It mentions travels to Jerusalem and Greece. Estrid that raised the stone is grandmother to Jarlabanke.

The middle stone is U 137 raised by Estrid and Östen after their son Gag. It’s the oldest of the Jarlabanke stones, and was found in 1930.

The stone to the right is U 135, the pair stone of U 136. It mentions building of a bridge and a mound nearby.

#runestones #viking

I've made another update of my runestone website. It is now backed by a data file making it a lot easier to add new pages.

I also added a few new pages, and updated some pages with new photos and texts.

Among the new and changed pages are: Sö 338, GR 1, N A222, DR 271, U 1125, U 785, U 778, Sö 96.

Unfortunately I also had to scale down photos as bots are wasting my resources. I'm now above the free tier for the outgoing data transfer, so I might have to start paying or they'll shut down the site.

https://www.varangianbiker.com

#runestones #VarangianBiker #VikingAge #viking

I’ve updated my runestone website and added scanned 3D models to some pages.

One of the stones with a 3D model is the runestone U 1125 which has an inscription in elder futhark and ornamentation of a person holding up their hands. There is also an inscription on one if the back sides that can be viewed by rotating the model on the page.

I’ve also restructured the pages so it will be easier to add new runestones. And I added a Swedish version of the site where I plan to post a few longer descriptions.

https://www.varangianbiker.com/locations/uppland/u-1125/

#runestones #3DModel #photogrammetry

I’m in Uppsala at a full day conference on runestones from Småland. There have been two talks heavy on place names and personal names. The first talk of the afternoon is about the runes “rufRa” on the runestone Sm 93 from Nömme.

#runestones

I just sent in a paper on the two runestones DR 271 Tullstorp and N A222 Ervik for the course in viking runes in Norway and Denmark. They are pretty different, one is a big standing stone with beautiful ornamental images, and the other is a small stone that is completely covered with runes.

#runestones #viking #history

I’ve started to look at another runestone trip this summer. I definitely want to include Sparlösa, and Karlevi on Öland. I also want to visit some stones in Småland that mention travels to England. While I’m that far south I might as well visit some stones in Blekinge, like Björketorp and Stentofta. I’d like to visit Tulltorp in Scania as well, as I’m supposed to write a paper on it soon. But I think Scania would be a whole trip on its own. If I’m going to Öland, I’d also like to visit Sandby hill fort, and the rest of the runestones that I missed last time. But that would probably also take too much time.

#runestones

To promote the video about the runestones of Ingvar the Far-Travelled’s disastrous viking raid, I created the website https://www.varangianbiker.com/

It has pages on each runestone, with pictures and inscription for them. Many have a tracing of the inscription to make it easier to read, and some have a longer description of the runestone. I have longer description of some of the stones that I need to add, so it will get updated at some point.

#viking #history #runestones #youtube #varangian #motorcycle

A couple of years ago I started visiting runestones on my motorcycle. The first 30 runestones I rode to were all about the viking expedition led by Ingvar the Far Travelled in the year 1041. It’s the event with most runestones raised after it, and there’s also an Icelandic viking saga written about it. The expedition went to the east on rivers down to the Black sea, and it ended disastrously, and most didn’t make it back alive.

I made a video with photos and videos of the runestones I visited.

https://youtu.be/k1wvULWRIoQ

I have since visited over a hundred more runestones, and I’m planning on creating more videos about them someday.

#viking #history #runestones #archaeology #saga

Elder futhark rune stones for 3D printing

#runes #RuneStones #3DPrinting

https://cults3d.com/:3318687

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.

https://runestonesafari.com/

#runestones

Waiting for a seminar on the world’s oldest runestone.

#runestones #history

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.

https://varangianbiker.com

#Runestones #VikingAge #History #Fonts

I published a whole bunch of pages about varangian runestones I’ve visited on the Varangian Biker site. Each page includes photos, a trace of the inscription and a translation. A few of them also have descriptions. I have visited more of them, but I haven’t had time to create pages for them yet.

https://www.varangianbiker.com/varangian-runestones/

#Runestones #Viking #OldNorse #History #Futhark #Runes #Varangians

Early Runestone Unearthed in Norway

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/02/04/early-runestone-unearthed-in-norway/

#archaeology #history #ancienthistory #anthropology #religion #religiousrituals #burialrites #burialsite #runes #runestones #norway #Svingerud

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.

#runestones #StandingStoneSunday #motorcycle

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.

#runestones #runology

I’m at an all-day conference on the runologist Erik Brate.

#runestones #runology

I’ve signed up for an entire day of seminars about the Swedish runologist Erik Brate in May.

#runestones #runology

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.

#runestones #viking #runes #VikingAge

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?

#shelfie #runestones #viking

#Runestones, #trigonometry, and the #GreatAwk. Ole Worm (Olaus Wormius to his Latin-speaking friends) was a remarkable guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Worm

early rewards have already been sent but you still have until the end of december 2023 to join for the latter batch!

thanks to this handy table, pick your tier based on which rewards you'd like the most! 💜

#art #artsubscription #membership #kofi #witch #crystals #runestones

some close-ups on the december physical rewards 💜 can't wait to wrap them up!

join until the 20th to have your rewards sent on the 20th! 💜

https://ko-fi.com/tyiart/tiers

#sticker #stickers #runestones #witchcraft #witch #crystals #handmade #MastoArt

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.

#viking #runestones

Oh, and I've done another thing I forgot to post a while back. If you're into reading Fthark Runes, I made a little web app that lets you cast spreads and look up info. It's on Itch.io here:

https://thefrugalgamer.itch.io/fthark-reader

#itchio #itchiogames #runes #runestones #webapp #divination

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.

https://www.VarangianBiker.com

#runestones #vikings #varangians