Only about a 5 minute drive from here where we stay at Hegratun there is a huge amazing outcropping of smooth stone with ancient hellerinstingar, or petroglyphs. We went today and looked and took pictures. I want to go back soon and do rubbings with paper and crayons. There are carved pictures of symbols and people and horses and boats, and lots of carved footprints. The footprints look like a boot with a heel.
I manipulated these pictures to make the carvings more visible. Some are very faint and best visible in evening light or in the fall when the sunlight is less brilliant.
These carvings aren't listed in wikipedia but this link is informative.
Runes are a different kind of rock writing, haven't seen any like that yet around here.
When you click on the picasa link make sure you choose to view the pictures in google earth, then it a real www experience.
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