Gamla Turingevägen Inscriptions
image:Holmfastristning 2008a.jpg, 450px, The Holmfast inscriptions carved into a rock face by a road in Södertälje, Södermanland, Sweden The Holmfast Inscriptions are two Viking Age memorial runic inscriptions and one image that are designated as Sö 311, Sö 312, and Sö 313 in the Rundata catalog. They are located in Södertälje, Stockholm County and the province of Södermanland, Sweden by the eponymous road ''Holmfastvägen''. Description image:Holmfastristning 2008c.jpg, 250px, Detail showing the beast on the Sö 313 image. The right carving Sö 313 is purely ornamental and probably represents a wolf. The lean wolf with hanging tongue seems to quickly rush out of the picture. The carving also includes a couple of ordinary rune snakes and a braided ring cross. The depicted cross means that Holmfast's family were Christian, which is further supported by the content of the text. The style of the carvings indicate that they were made around 1050–1080 AD. They were signed b ...
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