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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.
Östman Gudfastson had this stone erected,
made a bridge and christianized Jämtland.
Esbjörn made the bridge but Rivn
carved the runs on the stone.