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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.
This unique writing with runs contains to all appearences
several allusions to heroic poems and legends,
now vanished, from the 900-century and that is why most
of it is inaccessible to us. One stanza in the middle of the
context is carved in exactly the same metre as the poetic Eddan
-At the time Tjodrik the brave,
Cheieftain of the warriors at sea,
ruled the shore of the sea of Reid.
Now he is on horseback armed,
on his gotic horse, with shield on his shoulder,
the most important of märingar.
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