![]() ![]() There were formerly two other runestones at the bridge, but they were moved to Ekolsund in the early 19th century. ![]() Next to it, there are two barrows and a monument of raised stones. After one failed attempt a crew of 12 men managed to move it out of the water and raise it 25 metres north of the bridge, where it still remains. It would remain lying there until 1860, when it was moved with great difficulty by Richard Dybeck. It was at the time lying under the stone bridge that crossed the river north of Ekilla. The monument is more than 2 metres high, and it was mentioned for the first time in the 17th century during the national revision of historic monuments. Omeljan Pritsak suggests that he may have died in Vladimir of Novgorod's attack on Constantinople in 1043. The same family also raised the runestone U 643 and which reports the death of Andvéttr. It is raised in memory of the same man as U 654, below. This runestone in style Fp is located at Ekilla bro. "Herleif and Þorgerðr had this stone raised in memory of Sæbjǫrn, their father, who steered a ship east with Ingvarr to Estonia(?)/Serkland(?)." Es stȳrði austr skipi með Ingvari ą̄ Æistaland(?)/Særkland(?). Hærlæif ok Þorgærðr lētu ræisa stæin þenna at Sæbiorn, faður sinn. Of the names in the text, Sæbiorn means "sea bear," Hærlæif means "warrior love relic" or "beloved warrior," and Þorgærðr is the name of a goddess, Þorgerðr, which combines the god name Thor and gerðr, the latter word meaning "fenced in." Ingvar, the leader of the expedition, has a name meaning "the god Ing's warrior." This runestone is attributed to the runemaster Äskil. The inscription contained an Old Norse poem. Only 50 years later it had disappeared and in a letter written in 1645 it was explained that the stone had been used in the construction of a new stone jetty. Johan Bureus, one of the first prominent Swedish runologists, visited Steninge on May 8, 1595, and made a drawing of the runestone which stood by the jetty. It was located at Steninge Palace, but it is now lost. This runestone in runestone style Fp and is one of the Serkland runestones. The transcriptions into Old Norse are in the Swedish and Danish dialect to facilitate comparison with the inscriptions, while the English translation provided by Rundata gives the names in the de facto standard dialect (the Icelandic and Norwegian dialect): The nine runestones that mention Serkland can also be grouped as a runestone group of their own, in line with the same guidelines that apply to runestone groups such as the Ingvar Runestones and the England Runestones. Below follows a presentation of the runestones, but additional runestones that are associated with the expedition are: Sö 360, U 513, U 540, U 785, Vs 1-2, Vs 18 and Vg 184. īeside the Tillinge Runestone in Uppland and a rune stone on Gotland, the Ingvar Runestones are the only remaining runic inscriptions that mention Serkland. The expedition was also immortalized as a saga in Iceland in the 11th century, the Yngvars saga víðförla, and in the Georgian chronicle Kartlis tskhovreba, where king Julfr of the saga corresponds to king Baghrat IV. Few returned, as many died in battle, but most of them, including Ingvar, died of disease. The Vikings came to the south-eastern shores of the Caspian Sea, and they appear to have taken part in the Battle of Sasireti, in Georgia. It was a fateful expedition taking place between 10 with many ships. The Ingvar expedition was the single Swedish event that is mentioned on most runestones, and in number, they are only surpassed by the approximately 30 Greece Runestones and the approximately 30 England Runestones. The Ingvar Runestones ( Swedish: Ingvarstenarna) is the name of around 26 Varangian Runestones that were raised in commemoration of those who died in the Swedish Viking expedition to the Caspian Sea of Ingvar the Far-Travelled. Class=notpageimage| Clickable map of the geographic distribution of the Ingvar Runestones in southern Sweden (modern administrative borders and cities are shown) ![]()
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