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Submitted by Meginring on Wednesday, 21 February 2007  Page Views: 9305

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Gamla stans runsten Alternative Name: Runstenen i Gamla Stan
Country: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 5.022 km away from the location you searched for.

Landskap: Uppland Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Stockholm
Latitude: 59.324700N  Longitude: 18.070000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Gamla stans runsten
Gamla stans runsten submitted by Meginring : Site in Uppland Stockholm. Photo courtesy of www.old-town-stockholm.com (Vote or comment on this photo)
Runestone in Uppland

Embedded in a building in the Gamla Stan (Old Town) of Stockholm is a piece of an ornamented rune stone.

Transcribed and translated, the remaining runic inscription reads; 'Torsten and Frögunn had this stone raised after their son'. When compared with many other similar stones, the runes where carved around one thousand years ago.

How this fragment got to be used in this way is unknown, but it is clear that a builder got hold of it one way or the other and thought it would make a nice decoration.

The cannon was placed in front of the corner in the 17th century, to protect the wall from the wagon traffic in the narrow lanes.

Directions: Stockholm; Gamla Stan (Old Town), Prästgatan 17 / Kåkbrinken 1

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Gamla stans runsten
Gamla stans runsten submitted by SolarMegalith : Runestone (Upplands runinskrifter 53) in Gamla Stan of Stockholm (photo taken on August 2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Gamla stans runsten submitted by SolarMegalith : Detail of the runestone (photo taken on August 2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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