I went to visit three runestones standing next to each other at Broby bro north of Stockholm. They are all part of the Jarlabanke family stones.

The first one to the left is U 136, which is a pair stone with U 135. It mentions travels to Jerusalem and Greece. Estrid that raised the stone is grandmother to Jarlabanke.

The middle stone is U 137 raised by Estrid and Östen after their son Gag. It’s the oldest of the Jarlabanke stones, and was found in 1930.

The stone to the right is U 135, the pair stone of U 136. It mentions building of a bridge and a mound nearby.

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I've made another update of my runestone website. It is now backed by a data file making it a lot easier to add new pages.

I also added a few new pages, and updated some pages with new photos and texts.

Among the new and changed pages are: Sö 338, GR 1, N A222, DR 271, U 1125, U 785, U 778, Sö 96.

Unfortunately I also had to scale down photos as bots are wasting my resources. I'm now above the free tier for the outgoing data transfer, so I might have to start paying or they'll shut down the site.

https://www.varangianbiker.com

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I’ve updated my runestone website and added scanned 3D models to some pages.

One of the stones with a 3D model is the runestone U 1125 which has an inscription in elder futhark and ornamentation of a person holding up their hands. There is also an inscription on one if the back sides that can be viewed by rotating the model on the page.

I’ve also restructured the pages so it will be easier to add new runestones. And I added a Swedish version of the site where I plan to post a few longer descriptions.

https://www.varangianbiker.com/locations/uppland/u-1125/

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I’m in Uppsala at a full day conference on runestones from Småland. There have been two talks heavy on place names and personal names. The first talk of the afternoon is about the runes “rufRa” on the runestone Sm 93 from Nömme.

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I just sent in a paper on the two runestones DR 271 Tullstorp and N A222 Ervik for the course in viking runes in Norway and Denmark. They are pretty different, one is a big standing stone with beautiful ornamental images, and the other is a small stone that is completely covered with runes.

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I’ve started to look at another runestone trip this summer. I definitely want to include Sparlösa, and Karlevi on Öland. I also want to visit some stones in Småland that mention travels to England. While I’m that far south I might as well visit some stones in Blekinge, like Björketorp and Stentofta. I’d like to visit Tulltorp in Scania as well, as I’m supposed to write a paper on it soon. But I think Scania would be a whole trip on its own. If I’m going to Öland, I’d also like to visit Sandby hill fort, and the rest of the runestones that I missed last time. But that would probably also take too much time.

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