Runamo
Sign in to save__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.
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- dike
- Country
- Sweden
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- Ronneby Municipality
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- Dahlbergh Runamo (detalj).jpg
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__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.
As early as the 12th century, the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus reported in the introduction to his Gesta Danorum that the runic inscription was no longer legible, being too worn down. This had been established by a delegation sent by the Danish king Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182) to read the inscription: thumb|Illustration of the official Danish expedition in 1833, by C.F. Christensen
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Runamo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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