![]() As late as 1195, Emperor Alexios Angelos sent emissaries to Denmark, Norway and Sweden requesting 1,000 warriors from each of the three kingdoms. Greece was home to the Varangian Guard, the elite bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, and until the Komnenos dynasty in the late 11th century, most members of the Varangian Guard were Swedes. Swedish Viking ships were common on the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara and on the wider Mediterranean Sea. Scandinavians had served as mercenaries in the Roman army many centuries before the Viking Age, but during the time when the stones were made, there were more contacts between Scandinavia and Byzantium than at any other time. The latest stone to be found was in Nolinge, near Stockholm, in 1952. ![]() ![]() Several stones were documented by Richard Dybeck in the 19th century. Since the first discoveries by Johannes Bureus in the late 16th century, these runestones have been frequently identified by scholars, with many stones discovered during a national search for historic monuments in the late 17th century. Most of them are adorned with various runestone styles that were in use during the 11th century, and especially styles that were part of the Ringerike style (eight or nine stones ) and the Urnes style (eight stones ). The stones vary in size from the small whetstone from Timans which measures 8.5 cm (3.3 in) × 4.5 cm (1.8 in) × 3.3 cm (1.3 in) to the boulder in Ed which is 18 m (59 ft) in circumference. Among other runestones which refer to expeditions abroad, the only groups which are comparable in number are the so-called " England runestones" that mention expeditions to England and the 26 Ingvar runestones that refer to a Viking expedition to the Middle East. On these runestones the word Grikkland (" Greece") appears in three inscriptions, the word Grikk(j)ar (" Greeks") appears in 25 inscriptions, two stones refer to men as grikkfari ("traveller to Greece") and one stone refers to Grikkhafnir ("Greek harbours"). Most were inscribed in memory of members of the Varangian Guard who never returned home, but a few inscriptions mention men who returned with wealth, and a boulder in Ed was engraved on the orders of a former officer of the Guard. All the stones have been found in modern-day Sweden, the majority in Uppland (18 runestones) and Södermanland (7 runestones). They were made during the Viking Age until about 1100 and were engraved in the Old Norse language with Scandinavian runes. The Greece runestones ( Swedish: Greklandsstenarna) are about 30 runestones containing information related to voyages made by Norsemen to the Byzantine Empire. With the release of Patch 2.4 Insight has been changed to work in Missile Weapons.Class=notpageimage| Clickable map of the distribution of the Greece runestones in southern Sweden (modern administrative borders and cities are shown).Insight can be used in the following equipment: In order to create Insight you need to socket these Runes in the following order: Level 12-17 Meditation Aura When Equipped Runewords convert Armor or Weapons in Unique Equipment once the required amount of Runes is placed in the correct order, granting said item a fixed set of properties. Insight can be applied to Polearms, Staves, Bows, and Crossbows and is composed of 4 Runes. Level 12-17 Meditation Aura When Equipped Insight 4 Socket Polearms/ Staves/Missile Weapons
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