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Knowledge of runic writing reached the Nordic countries,
as early as the 3:rd century A.D.
After 400 A.D. it began to be used for inscriptions on stones.
The stone was usually put up to commemorate
a dead person or some great deed.

The inscription reads:

Sibba had the stone erected for Rotjud his wife,
daugther to Rodgeir in Anga.
She died young, leaving four underaged children.

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