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A press image released by the National Museum of Denmark to promote the Viking Exhibition (2013), featuring a brightly painted replica of the Jelling Stone.

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A donation box in the Orkneyinga saga Centre in Orphir, Orkney, featuring an open-mouthed face (viking?) with accompanying runic inscription.

'The Orkneyinga saga Centre, Orphir, tells the story of the Norse Earls of Orkney using The Orkneyinga…

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The Kensington runestone is one of several runestones found in the American Midwest. Olof Ohman claimed to have discovered it in 1898 near Kensington, Minnesota. The stone describes an expedition by Swedes and Norwegians to the area in the fourteenth…

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Tjängvide I (G 110) dates from c.700-800 AD and is now on display at Statens historiska museum in Stockholm. It is one of several Gotlandic picture stones with similar motifs; a ship under sail below and a scene that appears to be a welcome to…

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Maeshowe is a neolithic burial mound and chambered cairn on the mainland island of Orkney. Its connection to the Vikings (or Norse in Orkney) is the fact that the chamber was looted and used as a shelter on various occasions, as attested by the…

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An illustration of the typical forms of the so-called 'short-twigged' or Norwegian-Swedish runes.

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The Hørning stone (DR 58) was carved by an emancipated slave in honour of his master. The inscription reads: tuki : smiþr : riþ : stin : ift ¶ þurkisl : kuþmutaR : sun : is : hanum ¶ kaf : kul : uk :…

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This is Sigurd pictured slaying the dragon Fáfnir on the Ramsund carving (Sö 101), carved in the mid eleventh century. The runic inscription which the scenes from the legend accompany refers to a certain Sigriðr raising a bridge in memory of her…

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This runic inscription can be found in the covered exterior passage, on the fourth wall-board to the right of the south portal. The inscription consists of five runes, two of which, according to Professor Magnus Olsen, may be disregarded as mere…

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Photo of the older of the two Jelling stones, raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra. The English translation on the Samnordisk runtextdatabas reads "King Gormr made this monument in memory of Thyrvé, his wife, Denmark's adornment."

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Photo of the younger of the two Jelling rune stones (DR 42), raised by Harald Bluetooth (who died in 985 or 986) in memory of his father and mother, and his own legacy.

The English translation of the whole inscription on the Samnordisk…

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Photo of Side B of the younger of the two Jelling rune stones (DR 42), raised by Harald Bluetooth (who died in 985 or 986) in memory of his father and mother, and his own legacy.

The English translation of the whole inscription on the Samnordisk…

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Photo of Side C of the younger of the two Jelling rune stones (DR 42), raised by Harald Bluetooth (who died in 985 or 986) in memory of his father and mother, and his own legacy.

The English translation of the whole inscription on the Samnordisk…
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