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09 March 2009

Viking Graffitti: Greece Runestones todays wiki article talks about the Greece runstones. Runestones are generally memorials to deceased men,
but can even be a pre-"Kilroy was here" tagging, found even as far away as Italy on the Piraeus Lion. Modern Runecarvers still do stones, Eriksson will even do your bike if you like.

post by: dabitch at: 14:30 | 4 comments

Very cool! I wish they had left some of them here.

posted by taz 09 March | 15:04

You can find giant stones like that scattered around Sweden. I've thought about erecting one in my front yard because they are just that cool.

posted by trinity8-director 09 March | 15:20

They're even cooler in color the way they were a thousand years ago: like this one. Kalle Runristare is one of the more famous modern carvers, have him carve a large stone for you, or why not a small round one? (the "Galleri" link at the bottom of the page will lead you to more images of his stones)

posted by dabitch 09 March | 15:39

I have no proper photos of my arm tat, but what holds it all together is a rune animal, and even that has its rules, this wikipage explains the "knot" around these snakes or dragons, and how the creature is overlapping itself around the stone "pull both ends of the creatures and it will become a large knot, this is to tie the power of the creature to the rune"

posted by dabitch 09 March | 15:48

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