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The official home page for Anundshög, Sweden’s largest prehistoric burial mound, and Viking Age ship setting.

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The Stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial is surrounded by tightly or loosely fit slabs or stones in the outline…

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Rune stone next to the burial mounds and ship setting at Anundshög, c. 1000–1050. The rune stone was raised at the culmination of a row of standing stones, which may have marked the route of the 'Eriksgata', a royal procession route…

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Rune stone from Västerås (Anundshög), Västmanland(Vs 13). According to theSamnordisk runtextdatabasthe inscription reads: × fulkuiþr × raisti × staina × þasi × ala × at ×…

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A double ship setting at the prehistoric burial mound atAnundshög in Sweden, the largest of 5 ship settings on the site. Many ship settings pre-date the Viking Age, but also occur up to the year 1000AD, and are associated with pre-Christian…
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