Böksta Runestone

The Böksta Runestone, which is made of granite and is 2.6 meters in height, is notable for its images of a man on horseback holding a spear who is hunting an animal that may be an elk (moose) with two dogs and two birds.

The man carrying a bow and on skis is typically identified as Ullr, who in Chapter 21 of Skáldskaparmál of the Prose Edda is described as a Norse pagan ski-god, archery-god, and hunting-god.

It has also been suggested that the man on horseback, who has a beard and helmet and is riding a stallion, is the god Odin with his spear Gungnir on his horse Sleipnir.

The two dogs or wolves would then be Geri and Freki and the birds the ravens Huginn and Muninn.

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Detail showing a Norse god on skis.