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Picture stone, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Seated man and woman on seat of honour and figure presenting or taking a spear, with eternity symbol and long necked bird creature pecking the standing man, detail from a sandstone picture stone from a coffin, from Stanga Churchyard, Stanga Parish, Gotland, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. At the top is a runic inscription reading 'Rodvisi and Farbjorn and Gunbjorn'. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Seated man and woman on seat of honour and figure presenting or taking a spear, with eternity symbol and long necked bird creature pecking the standing man, detail from a sandstone picture stone from a coffin, from Stanga Churchyard, Stanga Parish, Gotland, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. At the top is a runic inscription reading 'Rodvisi and Farbjorn and Gunbjorn'. Picture by Manuel Cohen