The Sigurd stones encompass eight or nine Swedish runic inscriptions and one picture stone, each telling a unique story from the medieval Viking legend of Sigurd the dragon slayer. These runes date back to the Viking Age, representing the earliest Norse representations of the matter of the Völsung cycle, the source material for both the Middle High German Nibelungenlied and various Sigurd legends in the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, and Völsunga saga.
These runestones and their stories are as follows: - U 1163: Located in Stora Ramsjö, this rune stone depicts Sigurd, a dwarf, and a valkyrie offering a drinking horn to Sigurd. - U 1175: Also in Stora Ramsjö, this unique rune stone does not contain any runic text. - Gök stone: Positioned at Gök, about 5 kilometers west of Strängnäs, this rune stone depicts an inscription on two serpents that encompass most of the Sigurd imagery. - Gs 2: This rune stone is not on the Rundata project's list of Sigurd runestones.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
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