Uppland Runic Inscription
Uppland Runic Inscription 53 is a runestone built into a wall in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.Photo: Mats Halldin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Albertyanks, Public domain.
- 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.
Stockholm Central Station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stockholm Central Station, Stockholms centralstation, is Sweden's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm. 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.
Nobel Prize Museum
Museum
The Nobel Prize Museum is located in the former Stock Exchange Building on the north side of the square Stortorget in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.
Storkyrkan
Church
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Storkyrkan, also called Stockholms domkyrka and Sankt Nikolai kyrka, is the oldest church in Stockholm. Storkyrkan lies in the centre of Stockholm in Gamla stan, between Stockholm Palace and Stortorget, the old main square of Stockholm. Storkyrkan is situated 120 metres north of Uppland Runic Inscription.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gamla stan and Stockholm.
Gamla stan
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Gamla stan pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in Stockholm, containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.
Stockholm
Photo: Thanh-Tung Nguyen, CC BY 2.0.
Stockholm is Sweden's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within Stockholm County. The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.
Blasieholmen
Locality
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blasieholmen is a peninsula in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is located east of Kungsträdgården. Originally a small island, named Käpplingen, it became a peninsula, connected to Norrmalm, during the 17th century.
Uppland Runic Inscription
- Categories: Norse runestone, runic inscription, and historic site
- Location: Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.32473° or 59° 19′ 29″ northLongitude
18.07° or 18° 4′ 12″ eastOpen location code
9FFW83F9+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1949938879OpenStreetMap feature
historic=rune_stoneWikidata 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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