Lidingö

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<h3>Runic inscriptions</h3>
<p>Two <a href="/facts/Runic_inscription/kcfrBjbW">runic inscriptions</a> have been found on Lidingö. The latest, listed in <a href="/facts/Rundata/GNPPUB8e">Rundata</a> as the <a href="/facts/Uppland_Runic_Inscription_Fv1986_84/XdX978qF">Uppland Runic Inscription Fv1986 84</a>, was found in 1984 under a 10 cm thick layer of soil and <a href="/facts/Moss/YF8Rbf8y">moss</a> in an uninhabited region. The inscription is from the <a href="/facts/Viking_Age/sP3Ax2wX">Viking Age</a>, around 800–1050 AD. The inscription has been translated as:
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"<a href="/facts/%C3%85smund_K%C3%A5resson/eo7SJNxD">Åsmund</a> carved runes in memory of his grandfather Sten, father of Sibbe and Gerbjörn...a great monument over a good man."
<p>The figures show large snakes and on top, a <a href="/facts/Maltese_cross/tCA8s5fQ">Maltese cross</a>, a typical motif for the late Viking Age rune stones.
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<h3>Later history</h3>

<p>Approximately 300 to 400 years after the carving of the runes, the inhabitants of Lidingö had established small farms. Lidingö is first mentioned in writing in 1328, in the <a href="/facts/Will_(law)/PoRXxpEM">will</a> of Jedvard Filipsson, in the sentence <i>curiam in Lydhingø</i> meaning a "Lidingö farm".
</p><p><a href="/facts/Bo_Jonsson_(Grip)/cN8Eq1Cc">Bo Jonsson (Grip)</a> (early 1330s – 20 August 1386) bought the entire island between 1376 and 1381. In approximately 1480, the island was taken over by the Banér family from <a href="/facts/Djursholm/CeQjHw9y">Djursholm</a>. On 29 August 1774, Johan Gabriel Banér (1733–1811) also from Djursholm, sold the entire island and the land was divided into 25 farms.
</p><p>In the east part of Lidingö, the Långängen-Elfvik nature reserve, which includes 125 acres (0.51 km2) of open farmland and most of the forest land on Elfvik, has, preserved within its boundaries, one of the largest old farms, the Elfviks farm. Most of the original houses, built from the end of the 18th century to mid‑19th century, have been saved and restored. The farm is still active with beef cattle, sheep, and horses and is run by Lidingö Municipality.
</p><p>The first church was built in 1623.
</p><p>The <a href="/facts/IBM/QszA7nwd">IBM</a> educational center for northern Europe, was built close to the Elfvik farm in the early 1960s. The centre was later converted to a hotel.
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<h2 id="notable-people">Notable people</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Emma_Lundberg_(artist)/Brfj8VbM">Emma Lundberg</a> (1869 – 1953), artist and architect</li></ul>
<h2 id="sports">Sports</h2>
<p>The following sports clubs are located in Lidingö:
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<ul><li>KFUM Lidingö Basket (basketball section)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/IFK_Liding%C3%B6/2S7lNAL6">IFK Lidingö</a> - <a href="/facts/IFK_Liding%C3%B6_FK/qCk4F9Ap">IFK Lidingö FK</a> (soccer section)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/IFK_Liding%C3%B6/2S7lNAL6">IFK Lidingö</a> - IFK Lidingö SOK (orienteering section)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/IFK_Liding%C3%B6/2S7lNAL6">IFK Lidingö</a> - IFK Lidingö FRI (track and field athletics section)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Liding%C3%B6loppet/JHgVRhJc">Lidingöloppet</a>, cross-country running event</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Liding%C3%B6_SK/grL9auyU">Lidingö SK</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Hersbyholm/LGzU4yt2">Hersbyholm</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Lidingö at Wikimedia Commons</li>
<li> Lidingö travel guide from Wikivoyage</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012. <a href="http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls" target="_blank">http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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