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   The English text below is a machine-translation of the Swedish original text above

rockcavings give us a strong impression of what it was, which above all fulfilled people's lives in these districts. It was fights to seas and to country's, to horse and to feet's, with axe and swords, spears and bow, it was skilful ship construction, pursuit on deer and hare, fox and wolf, the arable lands' management, above all with ploughing uniting help, cattleherd care, the relation to the woman and to the gods power. That the rock carvings belong to the bronze age and an early part thereof is shown of the on them, projected axes and the swords' shapes. The people's religious attitudes applies everywhere on the rock carvings, through the numerous wheels, the foot soles and the copular cavities, which symbolic signs renown well-known from many parts, of the globe. 
In such copular cavities, that of the people called rivermills, have in certain countries until recently, lubrications and sacrifice occurred as cure against diseases, which been considered caused of fairies. It is plausible, that the meaning in this manner, was sacrificing to the underground domiciled kill ancestors or other land's gods power. That the wheel is a picture of the sun, becomes particularlily probable of the pictures, where the sun wheel describes the feature of a horse, as on the strange picture of the sunwagon of bronze with gilded plate, which 1902 was found in Trundholms bog in northern Själland, or where a number of men be imagined to roll a sun wheel (sees the round bulb on top on picture 2 (s. 5), which reminds about an at the river Mosel still on 1820:s midsummernights party, whereupon a straw wind wheel was ignited on

a height and was rolled down to the river, where only men could participate. If one succeeded to pursue the wheel being on fire bottom down, this was a sign for good wine harvesting. Then thus it is the sun itself, by the wheel's shape, is the object for cult, it can surely be questioned, if one not on this time still been content with that worship to nature phenomena, the sun, the thunder, the fire, the land, the water, without intending some gods, who ruled over them and whose tools they were. As such gods one have interpreted multiple man characters of considerably bigger size than other inscribed man, but it is seems to be possible, that this size only will emphasize the leaders, whose been leaders in the described fights. That the rock carvings mostly constitute historical pictures to the memory of fought fights,  seems very likely, if they also partial contains tries to win the in nature powers' favour. 
The rock carvings belong to the bronze age's period 2, as the sword pictures' appearance give at the hand, and this period according to O. Montelius, is 1450 - 1250 bc. and it willed therefore be app. 1600 years between them and the behaviour of the true script, runes, in our country. Some development of the rock carvings' characters and symbolic signs in the direction of script is not well-known, and when the script once was donated our people, it was through impact from more southern nations.

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