BREAKING RUNESTONE NEWS

The runestone shown in the middle foreground in this engraving from Ole Worm's 1643 Danicorum Monumentorum was buried and lost in the 18th century.

Roadworkers just accidentally found and dug it up ON WEDNESDAY MORNING THIS WEEK!

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/forsvunnen-runsten-hittad-efter-300-ar
"A fantastic fun find, which you did not think would happen. This stone has been gone for so long that we thought it was destroyed", said Magnus Källström, runologist at the Swedish National Heritage Board.
Here's the double page spread showing the Hunnestad runestones from Ole Worm's "Danicorum Monumentorum libri sex", printed in Copenhagen in 1643.

Link to the Wikipedia article on the Hunnestad Monument:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunnestad_Monument
Here's some more background on Worm's "Danicorum Monumentorum". https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1338793730694918146
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