Edinburgh's Runestone

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| image = "Princess Street Gardens" runestone in it's new location at 50 George Street, Edinburgh.jpg

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| image_caption = "Princes Street Gardens" runestone

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| created = 1010–1050

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| discovered_place = Lilla Ramsjö, Morgongåva, Vittinge parish, Uppland, Sweden

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| rune_id = U 1173

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| rune_master = Erik (A)

| rune_text_native = Old Norse: {{lang|non|Ari ræisti stæin æftiR Hialm, faður sinn. Guð hialpi and hans.}}

| rune_text_english = Ari raised the stone in memory of Hjalmr, his father. May God help his spirit.

| location = 50 George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland

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}}The Swedish Runestone, designated U 1173 in the Rundata catalogue, is an 11th-century[http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm Project Samnordisk Runtextdatabas Svensk] – Rundata entry for U 1173. Swedish Viking Age runestone which was located in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, below Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, within a fenced enclosure adjacent to Ramsay Garden.{{Cite web|url = http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/52498/photographs/edinburgh+princes+street+gardens/|title = Edinburgh, Princes Street Garden (Rune Inscribed Stone)|website = Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland}} Due to security concerns it was removed from there on 19 December 2017 and in the Autumn of 2020 was re-located at 50 George Square, Edinburgh just outside the University of Edinburgh's Department of Scandinavian Studies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/edinburghs-forgotten-viking-stone-get-new-home-596488|title=Edinburgh's forgotten Viking stone to get new home|date=November 15, 2017|website=The Scotsman}}{{Cite web |title=Runestone Project {{!}} Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |url=https://www.socantscot.org/research-project/runestone-project-2017-18/ |access-date=2019-03-21 |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://ewh.org.uk/ancient-stone-moves/|title=» Ancient stone moves|website=ewh.org.uk|access-date=2019-03-21}}

On 22 March 2023 the runestone was officially unveiled,{{Cite web|url=https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/activities/runes-runestones-and-u1173-the-edinburgh-runestone|title=Runes, Runestones, and U1173 - 'The Edinburgh Runestone'|website=University of Edinburgh Research Explorer}} after delays due to restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of Coronovirus.

Originally from Lilla Ramsjö in present-day Morgongåva, Heby Municipality, it was donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1787 by Sir Alexander Seton of Preston and Ekolsund (né Baron 1738–1814),{{Cite web |last=Gyllenhammar |first=Gyllenhammar |date=2015-07-03 |title=Alexander Seton (Baron) |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Alexander-Seton/6000000017553438216 |website=GENi}} and was presented to the Princes Street Proprietors by the Society in 1821.{{Cite journal|url = http://ssns.org.uk/resources/Documents/NorthernStudies/Vol15/McNaughton_1980_Vol_15_pp_29_33.pdf|title = Edinburgh's Runestone|last = McNaughton|first = Adam|date = 1980|journal = Northern Studies|pages = 29, 31}} It is one of three Swedish runestones in Britain; the other two (U 104 & U 1160) are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in England.[http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm Project Samnordisk Runtextdatabas Svensk] – Rundata entry for U 104.[http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm Project Samnordisk Runtextdatabas Svensk] – Rundata entry for U 1160.{{Cite journal|url = http://ssns.org.uk/resources/Documents/NorthernStudies/Vol15/McNaughton_1980_Vol_15_pp_29_33.pdf|title = Edinburgh's Runestone|last = McNaughton|first = Adam|date = 1980|journal = Northern Studies|page = 29}}