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PETROGLYPHS, PICTOGRAPHS, & MEGALITHS

Of SWEDEN with American Counterparts

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<bron 7 > -- Inscription at Baca, Brasted, Sweden

<bron 11 > -- A prayer engraved at Vanlös, Bohuslän, Sweden

<bron 12 > -- A fishing charm or prayer from Bohuslän, Sweden

<bron 13 > -- A large inscription at Fossum, Bohuslän, Sweden that depicts scenes from the winter festival called Thorri

<bron 14 > -- Another athletic event depicted in the Thorri inscription at Fossum, Bohuslän

<bron 15 > -- Figures from the Thorri festival inscriptions of Bohuslän, Sweden are sorcerers

<bron 3 > -- Figures of the sun globe at Hjulatorp, Sweden

<bron 4 > -- The inscription at Hjulatorp, Sweden, Old Norse text

<bron 5 > -- The inscription at Hjulatorp, Sweden

<bron 34 > -- Dolmen with massive capstone, Trelleborg, Sweden

<bron 80 > -- Some stone circles at Trelleborg, Sweden

<bron 6 > -- Detail from a bronze Age ship Petroglyph

<bron 8 > -- School lessons from ancient Scandinavia

<bron 9 > -- More bronze Age school lessons from Sweden

<bron 10 > --Three of the named vessels of a bronze Age fleet

<bron 16 > --Skits of athletic competition at the Thorri festival

<bron 191 -- Three versions of the same bronze Age riddle using pictographic symbols, from Sweden, Denmark & Canada

<bron 192 >-- Three versions of another bronze Age riddle using pictographic symbols, from Sweden, Denmark & Canada