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Scholars disagree on the function of a Viking Age assembly location. According to one view, all the people in the vicinity assembled there in order to reach agreements and to mete out justice. Another view sees the assemblies as meetings for the chieftains only who merely stated what they had decided
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in Norra Härene describes another widow who may have composed a lament. U 226 is the only surviving runestone signed by Gunnar, although more than forty other inscriptions have been attributed to him based on stylistic analysis. The runes
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Ulfkell(?) and
Arnkell and Gýi, they made the Assembly-place here ... No landmark will be more (great), than (the one) the sons of Ulfr made in (his) memory; able lads in memory of their father.
578:(?) ok {} Arnkell {} ok {} Gyi {} þæiʀ {} gærðu {} hiar {} þingstað ... unu {} æigi mærki {} mæiʀi {} verða, {} þan {} Ulfs {} syniʀ {} æftiʀ {} gær, iʀ {} svæinaʀ, {} at {} sinn {} faður.
981:(They) raised stones and produced the staff(?) and the great signs (of acclaim); Gyríðr also cherished her husband: he will therefore be commemorated in weeping. Gunnarr cut the stone.
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were central to the community. It is possible that the Skålhamra clan created the assembly location in order to have settlements around the lake baptized by priests from
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Ræistu {} stæina {} ok {} staf {} unnu(?) {} ok {} inn {} mikla {} at {} iarteknum. Ok Gyriði {} gats at {} veri. {} Þy man i grati {} getit lata. Gunnarr hiogg stæin.
575:... uk * arkil * uk * kui * þiʀ * kariþu * iar * þikstaþ ... ...unu * iki mirki * maiʀi * uirþa * þan * ulfs * suniʀ * iftiʀ * kir... ...iʀ * suinaʀ * at * sin * faþur
602:, for those inscriptions that have runic bands that end in serpent or animal heads depicted in profile. In the text there is some question regarding whether the
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Fuglesang, Signe Horn (1998). "Swedish
Runestones of the Eleventh Century: Ornament and Dating". In Düwel, Klaus; Hoops, Johannes; et al. (eds.).
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This runestone was also made by Gunnar and is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr1. This is the classification, which is also known as
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dialect to facilitate comparison with the inscriptions, while the
English translation provided by Rundata give the names in standard dialect (the
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The two runestones constitute a twin monument such that the text on U 225 is to be read as continuing on U 226. Both runestones were carved by a
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RAK. This is the classification for inscriptions with a runic text has no dragon or serpent heads and the ends of the runic bands are straight.
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Based on the styles of the inscriptions, the assembly location was created in the 1010s, and the runestones are some decades older than the
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ristu * stina * uk * staf * uan * uk * in * mikla * at * iartiknum uk kuriþi * kas at * uiri * þu mon i krati * kiatit lata kunar ik stin
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her deceased husband. It has been suggested that the inscription
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Runeninschriften als
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115:Runestones
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986:See also
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1019:of the
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