Anundshšg

Anundshšg is the place where a legendary king of 600s in Sweden was buried.

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The site map of the area where Anundshog is laid down.

There is a labyrinth in the area. This ancient site is considered as a sacred ritual site where a sybil handled a religious rite in the pagan era [The girl standing at the place where sybil might have stood like this during the ritual. Thanks, Louiza!].

runestenThere is a runestone
standing just beside the burial mound

This is me, standing there. Ooops!

A good picture, isn't it? THIS is taken by the request of Giedre.

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Those stones are in position so as to have a shape of a ship.

We are to assume that the people who made this site had a

custom of ship-burial, though it is not a real ship that

holds the dead body in it, but the ship-shaped lines of standing stones.

shipburial2The stones are mostly larger than the human height.

Anundr is a legendary king, a son of Yngvar. When Yngvar died just after or around AD 600, according to a sauce, he was succeeded to by his son Anundr. Since Yngvar was not old when he died, Anundr was rather young as he came to the throne. We naturally consider him as a strong king, together with Adil, the most important king of the Ynglinga-family.

Anundr is, however, only acknowledged by Ynglingasaga with Ynglingatal and Historia Norwegiae.

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