Line drawing of a rock carving: a long serpent forming a band of runes, a man below it thrusting a sword up, and inside the loop a horse, a tree with a bird, a seated figure and smith's tools
The Ramsund carving (Sö 101), cut into a rock face in Södermanland, Sweden, usually dated to about 1030, as drawn by Oscar Montelius in 1877. The dragon's body carries the runic inscription; beneath it Sigurðr stabs upward with his sword. At left he roasts the heart with his thumb at his mouth, beside the beheaded Reginn and his smithing tools; Grani stands by the tree where the birds sit.Oscar Montelius, Sveriges hednatid (1877), fig. 406, 1877 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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