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===Norse legends=== It appears from the imagery of the Swedish runestones that the most popular Norse legend in the area was that of [[Sigurd]] the dragon slayer.<ref name="Jansson144">Jansson 1987:144</ref> He is depicted [[Sigurd stones|on several runestones]], but the most famous of them is the [[Sigurd stones#Sö 101|Ramsund inscription]]. The inscription itself is of a common kind that tells of the building of a bridge, but the ornamentation shows Sigurd sitting in a pit thrusting his sword, forged by [[Regin]], through the body of the dragon, which also forms the runic band in which the runes are engraved. In the left part of the inscription lies Regin, who is beheaded with all his smithying tools around him. To the right of Regin, Sigurd is sitting and he has just burnt his thumb on the dragon's heart that he is roasting. He is putting the thumb in his mouth and begins to understand the [[language of birds|language]] of the [[marsh tit|marsh-tits]] that are sitting in the tree. They warn him of Regin's schemes. Sigurd's horse [[Grani]] is also shown tethered to the tree.<ref name="Jansson145">Jansson 1987:145</ref> Another important personage from the legend of the [[Nibelung]]s is [[Gunther|Gunnarr]]. On the [[Sigurd stones#Sö 40|Västerljung Runestone]], there are three sides and one of them shows a man whose arms and legs are encircled by snakes. He is holding his arms stretched out gripping an object that may be a harp, but that part is damaged due to flaking.<ref name="Jansson145"/> The image appears to be depicting an older version of the Gunnarr legend in which he played the harp with his fingers, which appears in the archaic eddic poem ''[[Atlakviða]]''.<ref name="Jansson146">Jansson 1987:146</ref>
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