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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Upplands-Bro Alternative Name: Assurssten
Country: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 7.154 km away from the location you searched for.
Landskap: Uppland Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Stockholm
Latitude: 59.508900N  Longitude: 17.616700E
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 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.
 4 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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Upplands-Bro
Upplands-Bro submitted by greywether : Nice stone; crap picture! (Vote or comment on this photo)
Runestone in Uppland.

A rune stone (the "Assurssten"?) in the Upplands Bro kommun of Stockholm. Located on Assurs Vag 200m N of Bro kyrka.
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Re: Upplands Brö by park on Saturday, 11 November 2006
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I would like to comment, on a few matters regarding Assurstenen (Assur's stone, or the Assur stone) and Bro, which happens to be where i grew up.
First of all, the name of the muncipality is Upplands-Bro, not Brö, no dots above the o. As the name suggests it is located in the province Uppland, and not in Södermanland.
The name Bro translates to "bridge" in english. The very bridge that provided the name of the place is mentioned on the stone.
This is the most famous of the known 37 runic inscriptions in Upplands Bro muncipality.

Written rune to letter, the inscription reads:
"kinluk × hulmkis × tutiR × systiR × sukruþaR × auk × þaiRa × kaus × aun × lit × keara × bru × þesi × auk × raisa × stain × þina × eftiR × asur × bunta * sin × sun × hakunaR × iarls × saR × uaR × uikika × uaurþr × miþ × kaeti × kuþ × ialbi × ans × nu × aut × uk × salu"

Translitterated and more readable:
"Ginnlaug, Holmgeirs dóttir, systir Sigrøðar ok þeira Gauts, hon lét gera brú þessa ok reisa stein þenna eptir Ôzur, bónda sinn, son Hákonar jarls. Sá var víkinga vôrðr með Geiti(?). Guð hjalpi hans nú ônd ok sálu."

Translated to modern swedish:
"Ginnlög, Holmgers dotter, syster till Sygröd och till Göt, hon lät göra denna bro och resa denna sten efter Assur, sin man, son till Håkon jarl. Han var landvärnare mot vikingar med Geter. Gud hjälpe nu hans ande och själ."

and in english:
"Ginnlaug, Holmgeirr's daughter, Sigrøðr and Gautr's sister, she had this bridge made and this stone raised in memory of Ôzurr, her husbandman, earl Hákon's son. He was the viking watch with Geitir(?). May God now help his spirit and soul."

The inscription is designated U 617.


One interesting thing about this stone is that it actually mentions vikings. Assur is "the viking watch", part of some sort of defence force against vikings.

Sources:
-Samnordisk runtextdatabas (http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm)
-Sandén B: Det hände i Upplands-Bro, Upplands-Bro kulturnämnd 1984, ISBN 91-970634-0-1

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