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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:

Tjudgerund Gudleif und Karl, all the brothers
had the stone errected after Tjudmund, their father.
God save his soul and of Holy Mother.
Åsmund Kårason carved the right runs.
At that time Edmund was the King of Uppsala.

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