Uppland Runic Inscription

Uppland Runic Inscription 53 is a runestone built into a wall in Gamla stan, the old town in central , .
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  • Type: Runestone
  • Description: Runestone in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Also known as: “U 53” and “Uppland Runic Inscription 53”
  • Inscription: “ᚦᚬᚱ[..]ᛅᛁᚾ ᛫ ᛅᚢᚴ ᛫ ᚠᚱᛅᚤᚴᚢᚾ ᛫ ᚦᛅᚢ[...] ᛫ ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ ᛫ ᛁᚠᛏᛁᛦ [...] ᛋᚢᚾ ᛋᛁᚾ”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Nobel Prize Museum.

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, Stockholms centralstation, is 's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of . It is directly connected to the Cityterminalen bus station, the Stockholm City commuter train station and the T-Centralen metro station, with a tram stop.

Museum
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The is located in the former Stock Exchange Building on the north side of the square in , the old town in central , .

Church
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, also called Stockholms domkyrka and Sankt Nikolai kyrka, is the oldest church in . lies in the centre of Stockholm in Gamla stan, between and , the old main square of Stockholm. is situated 120 metres north of Uppland Runic Inscription.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gamla stan and Stockholm.

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pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in , containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.

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is 's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within . The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

Locality
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is a peninsula in central , Sweden. It is located east of . Originally a small island, named Käpplingen, it became a peninsula, connected to , during the 17th century.

Uppland Runic Inscription

Latitude
59.32473° or 59° 19′ 29″ north
Longitude
18.07° or 18° 4′ 12″ east
Open location code
9FFW83F9+VX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1949938879
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­rune_stone
Wiki­data ID
Q7899119
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In Other Languages

From Russian to Swedish—“Uppland Runic Inscription” goes by many names.
  • Russian: “Рунический камень U53”
  • Swedish: “U 53”
  • Swedish: “Upplands runinskrifter 53”

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