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| | Ales Stenar, Sweden |
 | | In the summer of 2000, while in Sweden, I visited twice Ales Stenar (Ale Stones), the mysterious "ship-setting" made of 59 large boulders set in a layout of a ship, 67 metre in length, 19 metre in breadth. |
 | | According to some, the name Als (or Ale) meant a "sanctuary" in the ancient Nordic language, and according to others it meant a "ridge," what would correspond well to the topographic location of Ales Stenar on a 37 metre-high ridge of the Baltic shore [i]. |
 | | A broader goal, however, was to explore the ridge on both sides of the Ale ship-setting and the Kåseberga village area in order to correlate the remnants of the prehistoric settlements that had been found earlier during the archaeological excavations at several sites in other villages in the large area north of the ridge. |
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