List of runestones

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Rune stones are stones with runic inscriptions dating from the early Middle Ages but are found to have been used most prominently during the Viking Age.

1 List of stones

[edit] List of stones

Compare Megalithic Standing stones, Gaelic High crosses and Ogham inscriptions.

[edit] Image stones

The Ardre image stones
The Stora Hammars Stone and the Tängelgarda stone, Lärbro parish

[edit] Elder Futhark runestones

Einang stone (4th century)
Kylver Stone (5th century)
Björketorp Runestone (transitional, 7th century)
Stentoften (transitional, 7th century)
Eggjum stone (8th century)
Rök Runestone (transitional, ca. 800)
Tune Runestone (250-400)

[edit] Younger Futhark runestones

England Runestones - a collection of 30 runestones that refer to Viking Age voyages to England, from Sweden, Norway and Germany.

[edit] Denmark

[edit] Greenland

Kingigtorssuaq Runestone

[edit] Norway

[edit] Sweden

Varangian Runestones - inscriptions that mention voyages to the East (Austr) or the Eastern route (Austrvegr).
Ingvar Runestones - 26 Varangian runestones that were raised in commemoration of those who died in the Swedish Viking expedition to the Caspian Sea of Ingvar the Far-Travelled.
Serkland Runestones - six or seven runestones which are Varangian Runestones that mention voyages to Serkland, the Old Norse name for the muslim world in the south.
Greece Runestones - 29 Varangian runestones that talk of voyages to Greece, i.e. the Byzantine Empire.
Viking Runestones - Stones that mention Scandinavians who participated in Viking expeditions in western Europe, and stones that mention men who were Viking warriors and/or died while travelling in the West.
Jarlabanke Runestones - a collection of 20 runestones written in Old Norse related to Jarlabanke Ingefastsson and his clan.
Frösöstenen
The Ramsund carving
Sparlösa Runestone