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Simris Runestones

Simrishamn Municipality, Sweden

The Simris Runestones are two 11th-century runestones located at the vicarage of Simris, near Simrishamn, in southeasternmost Scania, Sweden. They were rediscovered in a church wall in 1716 during a restoration of the church. Although the territory was Danish at the time, they were made in the Swedish style of Uppland. One of the stones is notable in being one of the earliest native Scandinavian documents that mention Sweden.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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