Blekinge

county (län) in Sweden

Blekinge () is one of the traditional Swedish provinces (), situated in the southern coast of the geographic region of Götaland, in southern Sweden. It borders Småland, Scania and the Baltic Sea. It is the country's second-smallest province by area (only Öland is smaller), and the smallest province located on the mainland.

thumb|The historic region Skåneland (the Scanian provinces) in brown, consisting of the Sweden|Swedish provinces [[Blekinge, Halland and Scania, and the Danish island Bornholm]]Skåneland is a region on the southern Scandinavian Peninsula. It includes the Swedish provinces of Blekinge, Halland, and Scania. The Danish island of Bornholm is traditionally also included. Skåneland has no official recognition or function and the term is not in common usage. Equivalent terms in English and Latin are "the Scanian Provinces" and "Terrae Scaniae" respectively. The term is mostly used in historical conte

law of the historical provinces of Scania

__NOTOC__ thumb|Runamo thumb|Some of the "runes" at Runamo upright=1.3|thumb|Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae's illustration of a part of the "inscription"Runamo is a cracked dolerite dike in Sweden that was for centuries held to be a runic inscription and gave rise to a famous scholarly controversy in the 19th century. It is located 2.7 km from the church of Bräkne-Hoby in Blekinge, in South-Sweden. For hundreds of years people said it was possible to read an inscription, and learned men referred to it.