Jättendal
Encyclopedia
Jättendal is a locality
situated in Nordanstig Municipality
, Gävleborg County
, Sweden
with 277 inhabitants in 2005.
A runestone carved by a female runemaster
, cataloged as HS 21
under Rundata
, is located here.
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
situated in Nordanstig Municipality
Nordanstig Municipality
Nordanstig Municipality is a municipality in Gävleborg County, east central Sweden.The municipal seat is located in Bergsjö....
, Gävleborg County
Gävleborg County
Gävleborg County is a county or län on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders to the counties of Uppsala, Västmanland, Dalarna, Jämtland and Västernorrland. The capital is Gävle.- Administration :...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
with 277 inhabitants in 2005.
A runestone carved by a female runemaster
Runemaster
A runemaster or runecarver is a specialist in making runestones.Most early medieval Scandinavians were probably literate in runes, and most people probably carved messages on pieces of bone and wood. However, it was difficult to make runestones, and in order to master it one also needed to be a...
, cataloged as HS 21
Hälsingland Rune Inscription 21
Hälsingland Runic Inscription 21, a Viking Age memorial runestone cataloged as Hs 21 under Rundata, is located in Jättendal, Nordanstig Municipality, Hälsingland, Sweden, and is notable as being created by a female runemaster.-Description:...
under Rundata
Rundata
The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of runic inscriptions. The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way for future research...
, is located here.