Neil Hopcroft

U337“+ hemik + uk + sialfi + uk + iohan + þeiR + lata hakua + eftR + faþur sin + finuiþ + uk + uarkas × uk × rahnfriþ + uk moþur sina + uk + at + ikikerþi + uk + at + kalf + uk + kiarþar + u- …-at + (h)an […]

Near the Markim gravefields there is a rune stone, U338.“þurstin × uk × ragnfriR × þu ristu × stin × þina × iftiR × biur[n] × i krnbu× bruþur × kalfs × anum × ua[at × uikmu – – R × ku]þ ihlbi × [o]ns × ot × uk × salu × bitr × þan × on karþ[i] […]

Just outside the small village of Markim there are some gravefields.

U779“Järand reste dessa stenar efter Jarl, sin son. Guo hjälpe hans ande”“Järand raised this stone after Jarl, his son. Who helped ???”

The town of Enköping is just over half an hours drive west from here, it is a small old town with a lot of history both in and around.

Not far from the Brandskogship are a number of other rock carvings showing various important things from their time – a lot of ships and herds of animals, along with a number of people.

The Brandskogskeppet (“fire forest ship”) is a carving of a ship in the forest at the edge of what was once a lake – the land has been rising for centuries and it is now by a lush valley.

Jan Fridegårds (also known as Johan Fridolf Johansson) (link in swedish) was a prolateriat writer who died in the ’60s, this is a cottage and garden dedicated to his memory. It was such an odd thing that I had to stop to take a look, but couldn’t figure out what any of it was until I […]

The nearest town to Nynäs slott is Trosa, a small old town apparently rebuilt in 1719 but now the home of some of the richest people in Sweden.

I dropped A. off at the airport and popped in to Nynäs Slott on the way home.