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File:Varangian routes.png
A map of the main routes east from Scandinavia.

The Varangian Runestones are runestones in Scandinavia that mention voyages to the East (Template:Langx) or the Eastern route (Template:Langx), or to more specific eastern locations such as Garðaríki in Eastern Europe.

There are also many additional runestones in Scandinavia that talk of eastward voyages such as the Greece Runestones, Italy Runestones, and inscriptions left by the Varangian Guard. Other runestones that deal with Varangian expeditions include the Serkland Runestones (dealing with expeditions to the Middle East) and the Ingvar Runestones (erected in honor or memory of those who travelled to the Caspian Sea with Ingvar the Far-Travelled).Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn There is also a separate article for the Baltic expeditions runestones. In addition, there were also voyages to Western Europe mentioned on runestones that are treated in the articles Viking Runestones, England Runestones and Hakon Jarl Runestones.

Most of the runestones were raised during the Christianization of the 11th century when the making of runestones was fashionable, but notably, the Kälvesten Runestone Ög 8 was made in the 9th century when the Varangians played a central role in what would become Russia and Ukraine. This vast area was a rich source of pelts, hides and people, and it was an important component in the contemporary Swedish economy.Template:Sfn Its Old Norse name meant 'land of fortresses' and was derived from the chains of fortresses that had been constructed along the trade routes.Template:Sfn

All of the stones were engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark and the message of many of the inscriptions can be summarized with a poem in the fornyrðislag style found on the Turinge Runestone Sö 338:

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Below follows a presentation of the runestones based on the Rundata project. The transcriptions into Old Norse are mostly 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):

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Uppland

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U 153

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File:U 153, Hagby.jpg
Runestone U 153

This runestone in style Pr3 is one of the runestones in Hagby.Template:Sfn It was discovered in 1930 in the basement under the main building of the old estate Lissby which had been demolished in the late 19th century.Template:Sfn It had been inserted in the basement wall with the engraved side visible together with the runestones U 152 and U 154.Template:Sfn When the basement collapsed, the runestone was splintered into a great number of minor and major pieces of which the top part was the largest one.Template:Sfn A fragment of the stone was discovered in the field on the property of Lissby.Template:Sfn All in all, no less than 70 pieces were reassembled, and in 1931, the repaired stone was raised in the garden of Hagby.Template:Sfn The stone is in granite and it is 2.60 m tall and 1.5 m wide.Template:Sfn The inscription is damaged and especially in its beginning and end.Template:Sfn It refers to several stones and one of them was probably the runestone U 155.Template:Sfn

The last runes may be reconstructed as either Script error: No such module "Lang". ('in Script error: No such module "Lang".',Template:Efn i.e. 'in the lands of Rus'') or Script error: No such module "Lang". ('among Greeks', i.e. 'in the Byzantine Empire').Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

U 154

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

File:U 154, Hagby.JPG
Runestone U 154

This runestone in style Pr3 and it is one of the runestones in Hagby.Template:Sfn It was discovered together with U 151 and U 153 in a collapsed basement under the eastern part of the foundation of the main building of the farm Lissby.Template:Sfn When it was discovered, it was still standing but it had been crushed and it crumbled into 50 pieces when it was removed from the wall.Template:Sfn It was reassembled but the upper part had been lost and could not be retrieved.Template:Sfn In 1931, it was raised in the garden of Hagby.Template:Sfn The stone is dark and it is 1.23 m tall and 0.3 m wide.Template:Sfn The inscription is damaged in several places.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

U 209

File:U 209, Veda.JPG
Runestone U 209

This is not properly a runestone but a runic inscription in style Pr4 that has been carved into flat bedrock at Veda. It is dated to the mid-11th century.Template:Sfn It was ordered by Þorsteinn who enriched himself in the lands of Rus' in memory of his son. Omeljan Pritsak identifies this Þorsteinn with Þorsteinn, the former commander of a retinue,Template:Sfn who is commemorated on the Turinge Runestone.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn He suggests that Þorsteinn was the commander of the retinue of Yaroslav the Wise and that his son Erinmundr may have died in Garðaríki while serving under his father.Template:Sfn

The estate that was bought was probably the farm Veda, where the inscription is located.Template:Sfn The inscription is of note as it indicates that the riches that were acquired in Eastern Europe had led to the new procedure of legally buying odal land.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

U 283

File:U 283, Torsåker.jpg
Runestone U 283 in a 17th-century drawing

This runestone was located at the estate of Torsåker but it has disappeared. It was presumably in style Pr3 and made by the runemaster Fot. It was raised by three men in memory of a fourth who had died in the east.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

U 366

File:U 366, Gådersta.jpg
Runestone U 366 in a 17th-century drawing

This runestone was found as fragments at Gådersta and has disappeared but it was probably in style Pr4. It was raised in memory of a man who died on the eastern route.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

U 504

File:U 504, Ubby.jpg
Runestone U 504

This runestone is an early inscription in style RAK without ornamentations. It is located in Ubby and it was raised in memory of a father who had travelled both in the west and in the east.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

U 636

File:U 636, Låddersta.JPG
Runestone U 636

This stone is found at Låddersta and it is in the style Fp. It is raised in memory of a son named Arnfast who travelled to Garðaríki. Arnfast is also mentioned on the stone U 635.

There are two readings of Script error: No such module "Lang".. One interpretation is that it means "to Script error: No such module "Lang"." or "to Script error: No such module "Lang".", i.e. "to the lands of Rus'".Template:Sfn In runic inscriptions, however, that toponym always appears in the plural dative form,Template:Sfn suggesting that the singular form Script error: No such module "Lang". may have referred to a particular town Script error: No such module "Lang"., i.e. either to ConstantinopleTemplate:Sfn or to Kiev.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

U 687

File:U 687, Sjusta.JPG
Runestone U 687

This stone, signed by the runemaster Öpir, is found at Sjusta near Skokloster. It is in style Pr4 and it is raised by a woman named Rúna in memory of her four sons who had died. She had it made together with her daughter-in-law Sigríðr who was the widow of Spjallboði. They added that the place where Spjallboði had died was Script error: No such module "Lang"., and several scholars have discussed the meaning of these runes.Template:Sfn

In 1875, Richard Dybeck suggested that Script error: No such module "Lang". represented Old Norse Script error: No such module "Lang". meaning 'Greece', but in 1891 Sophus Bugge read Script error: No such module "Lang"., which means 'retinue'.Template:Sfn Later, in 1904, Adolf Noreen interpreted them as Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning 'hook',Template:Sfn but in 1907, Otto von Friesen proposed that the runes read Script error: No such module "Lang"., i.e. 'in Saint Olaf's Church in Novgorod'. Otto von Friesen's interpretation has since then been the accepted interpretation.Template:Sfn

Omeljan Pritsak suggests that Spjallboði died in a fire that destroyed the church in c. 1070–1080.Template:Sfn Jansson, on the other hand, attributes the death of Spjallboði in a church to the fact that many of the medieval churches were defensive structures.Template:Sfn

The runic text is signed by the runemaster Öpir, who was active during the late 11th and early 12th centuries in Uppland.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

U 898

File:U 898, Norby.JPG
Runestone U 898

This is not properly a runestone but a runic inscription on flat bedrock at Norby. It is in style Pr4 and it is raised in memory of three men, one of whom died in the East. The runic text is signed by the runemaster Öpir.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Södermanland

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

Sö 33

File:Sö 33, Skåäng.JPG
Runestone Sö 33

This runestone is located in Skåäng and it is the style Fp. It was raised in memory of a man who died in an assembly in the east. It is also possible that it says that the man died in a retinue in the east.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 34

File:Sö 34, Tjuvstigen.JPG
Runestone Sö 34

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This runestone is located at a path called Tjuvstigen ('thief trail') and is carved in runestone style KB. This is the classification for inscriptions with a cross that is bordered by the runic text. The runic text states that it was raised in memory of two brothers who were Script error: No such module "Lang". or 'good thegns', which was a class of retainer, and who died somewhere in the East. This same phrase is used in its singular form on runestones Vg 8 from Hjälstad and DR 143 from Gunderup. About fifty memorial runestones describe the deceased as being a thegn.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 92

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Runestone Sö 92

This runestone is found at the cemetery of Husby. Its front side is completely covered in illustrations and it is attributed to style Pr3-Pr4. It was carved by the runemaster Balle in memory of someone's brother who died in the East.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 121

File:Sö 121, Bönestad.jpg
Runestone Sö 121

This runestone has disappeared but was located in Bönestad. It was made in the style RAK in memory of a man who died in the East.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 126

File:Sö 126, Södermanland.JPG
Runestone Sö 126

This runestone is a runic inscription on flat bedrock in Fagerlöt. It is in the style Pr2-Pr3 and it was made in memory of a man named Áskell who fell in battle in the East. The second sentence of the inscription is in the meter fornyrðislag, and it contains a virtually unique use of the Old Norse word Script error: No such module "Lang". ('cruel') in the sense "commander".Template:Sfn Áskell's title Script error: No such module "Lang". may be the title that the commander had in the druzhina of Yaroslav I the Wise in Novgorod.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 130

File:Sö 130, Hagstugan.JPG
Runestone Sö 130

This runestone is found near a homestead named Hagstugan. It is either style Fp or possibly style Pr1 and it is raised in memory of a man who fell in what is today Russia. It is composed in fornyrðislag and the last line, which contains cipher runes, was decoded by Elias Wessén. It is from the first half of the 11th century.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

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Sö 148

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Runestone Sö 148

This runestone is found in Innberga and it was raised in memory of a man who died in what is today Russia. It is dated to the first half of the 11th century.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 171

File:Sö 171, Esta.jpg
Runestone Sö 171 in the 17th-century drawing by Johan Peringskiöld that has preserved the message of the runic inscription

This runestone is a boulder that was found in Esta, and it was made in memory of the captain of a ship who died in Novgorod.Template:Sfn The boulder is badly damaged due to weathering, but thanks to a 17th-century drawing scholars know what it said.Template:Sfn Three parts of the stone are located in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm.

According to Jansson, the runestone testifies to the unrest that could appear in the important marketplace of Novgorod,Template:Sfn and it was not only the captain who died, but also the entire crew.Template:Sfn Omeljan Pritsak, on the other hand, thinks that the deceased had probably died in the service of the Novgorodian prince in the first half of the 11th century.Template:Sfn The second half of the inscription is in the fornyrðislag meter.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 216

File:Sö 216, Aska (2).jpg
Runestone Sö 216, 19th-century drawing by Richard Dybeck

This runestone was found as a fragment in Aska, but it has disappeared. What remained said that it was made in memory of a man who died in the East.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 308

File:Sö 308, vid Järnavägen.JPG
Runestone Sö 308

This runestone is a runic inscription by the runemaster Öpir in the style Pr5 on a large boulder. It is located outside the railroad station in Södertälje. It was made in memory of two men who were in the east. The runic text is signed by the runemaster Öpir, and uses a bind rune to combine the a-rune and s-rune in the word Script error: No such module "Lang"., which is tentatively translated as Script error: No such module "Lang". ('east').Template:Sfn Öpir used the same Script error: No such module "Lang". bind rune in inscription U 485 in Marma.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Sö 338

File:Sö 338, Turinge.JPG
Runestone Sö 338

This is a runestone raised in the church of Turinge. It is in sandstone, in the style Pr4 and it was made in memory of the chieftain of a warband. It is the most verbose of all the Varangian stones,Template:Sfn and it was probably made in the mid-11th century.Template:Sfn

Omeljan Pritsak identifies this Þorsteinn with Þorsteinn of the Veda inscription, who bought an estate for his son with money earned in the lands of Rus'.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn He suggests that Þorsteinn was the commander of the retinue of Yaroslav I the WiseTemplate:Sfn and that his son Erinmundr may have died in Garðaríki while serving under his father.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

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Västmanland

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

Vs 1

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Runestone Vs 1
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The accompanying image stone Vs 2

This runestone was discovered in 1938 in the ruins of the church of Stora Rytterne.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn It forms a monument together with image stone Vs 2, and it was raised in memory of a son who died either in what is today Russia or in Khwarezm in Persia.

Jansson, who was the first scholar to publish an analysis of the inscription, suggested in 1940 that Script error: No such module "Lang". was a misspelling for Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., 'in Gardariki'). However, in 1946, he discovered that it may refer to Khwarezm in Central Asia. He proposed that it may be one of the Ingvar Runestones and that it tells where the Ingvar expedition ultimately ended in 1041. The archaeologist Ture J. Arne criticized this analysis claiming that although a Viking chieftain could arrive to the Caspian Sea in 922, when Vikings met Ibn Fadlan, such a voyage would not have been possible in the 1040s.Template:Sfn Arne instead accepted Jansson's first analysis of the inscription.Template:Sfn

The Rundata project retains Khwarezm as an equal possibility,Template:Sfn and Omeljan Pritsak notes that Script error: No such module "Lang". agrees with *qarus-m which is what the Middle Turkic form of Khwarezm would have been.Template:Sfn Moreover, Pritsak notes that Arne was wrong in his claim that it would have been impossible for Ingvar to go to Kwarezm at the time. On the contrary, there were no obstacles for such a voyage during the period 1035–1041.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The inscription is somewhat unusual in that the sponsor's name Script error: No such module "Lang"., which is the first word in the inscription, is preceded and followed by a cross, perhaps done to draw attention.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Vs Fv1988;36

File:Vs Fv1988;36, Jädra.JPG
Runestone Vs Fv1988;36

This runestone is carved in runestone style Fp and was raised in memory of Grímmundr who travelled to the east.Template:Sfn It was discovered in 1986 at Jädra near Västerås, when stones were removed from a field. It is a lightly reddish stone which is granular and finely textured. The surface of the inscription is even but it is damaged due to flaking, making parts of the inscription difficult to read. It is 2.27 m tall, 0.9 m wide and 0.33 m thick. It is of note that the inscription when discovered still carried traces of its original colouring, which was determined to be of iron oxide but without any noticeable traces of binding material. The nuance appears to have been the same the one used by the Department of Runes when repainting runes in modern days. The stone is of historic note as it mentions the construction of a bridge on the old trail from Badelunda and lake Mälaren to the district of Dalarna.Template:Sfn

The Rundata designation for this Västmanland inscription, Vs Fv1988;36, refers to the year and page number of the issue of Fornvännen in which the runestone was first described.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Östergötland

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

Ög 8

File:Ög 8, Västra Steninge.jpg
Runestone Ög 8

The Kälvesten stone in Östergötland is dated to the 9th century.Template:Sfn It is the oldest inscription that mentions a Viking chieftain leading an expedition eastwards, and many other chieftains would follow in his wake.Template:Sfn Unfortunately, it does not tell the exact destination of the Viking expedition.Template:Sfn

In the inscription, the runes aukrimulfʀ are to be read as auk krimulfʀ and the k rune, File:Long-branch Kaun.svg, thus represents two letters at the same time.Template:Sfn The runes represent the common Norse name Grímulfr, which was in use all over Scandinavia. It is of note that the name appears in such an old runestone as the other runic attestations of the name are considerably younger, and the name was common in medieval Norway. The name of the deceased, Eyvindr, is a common name in Swedish runic inscriptions, but not Eivísl, the name of the chieftain of the expedition. The only other secure attestation appears on the contemporary Sparlösa Runestone in Västergötland. Since the name appears on two runestones from roughly the same time and in two districts that were culturally closely connected, the name may refer to the same person on the two runestones.Template:Sfn Unfortunately, the Sparlösa Runestone is damaged in several places and although it mentions a battle and although there are images like birds hovering above the rigging of a ship, scholars cannot be certain that it refers to a chieftain who had fallen in battle. The identification between the name Eivísl on the two runestones will remain a hypothesis.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

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Ög 30

File:Ög 30, Skjorstad.JPG
Runestone Ög 30

This runestone is found at Skjorstad. It is in the style Fp and it was raised in memory of a man named Ingvarr who died in the East.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Västergötland

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

Vg 135

File:Vg 135, Hassla.jpg
Runestone Vg 135

This runestone has disappeared but was found in the village of Hassla. It was in the style RAK and it was raised in memory of a brother who died on the eastern route.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Vg 184

File:Vg184, Smula.JPG
Runestone Vg 184

This runestone was raised in the cemetery of the church of Smula, but has been moved to the grounds of Dagsnäs Castle. It is carved in the style Fp and it is raised in memory of a brother who died as a warrior in the east. He may have been a member of the Varangian Guard.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Vg 197

File:Vg 197, Dalum.JPG
Runestone Vg 197

This runestone is raised on the cemetery of the church of Dalum. It was raised in memory of a two brothers, one of whom died in the west while the other one died in the east.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Öland

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

Öl 28 (58)

File:Öl 28 (58), Gårdby.JPG
Runestone Öl 28

This runestone is raised on the cemetery of Gårdby and it is raised in memory of a man who either stayed in what is today Russia or in a nearby location. It is dated to the period 1020–1050.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

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Gotland

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". There are only about ten runestones on Gotland that commemorate men who died in foreign lands, which appears to challenge the common view that the island was "the international trade center of the Viking Age".Template:Sfn Four of these runestones mention East European place names.Template:Sfn

G 114

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Runestone G 114, side C

This runestone refers to a man who was in a place called karþum. One view holds that the place name is Script error: No such module "Lang"., i.e. Garðaríki (the lands of Rus'), and another view is that the name refers to Garda Parish not far from the stone.Template:Sfn Omeljan Pritsak holds the first view to be the correct one, since having been to a neighbouring parish hardly merits a mention on a runestone.Template:Sfn It is probably from the first half of the 11th century.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

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G 134

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Runestone G 134

The stones G 134 and G 135 tell about the same family, and there is also an additional runestone about the same people, G 136. These runestones tell of a common situation for Scandinavian families in the 11th century: one son was killed through treason in the South, possibly as a member of the Varangian Guard, and another son died in Vindau (Ventspils, Latvia).Template:Sfn

The men who betrayed Hróðfúss were according to the runestone blökumenn ('black men') and most scholars interpret them as Walachians,Template:Sfn but others, such as Omeljan Pritsak, argue in favour of a theory that they were Polovtsians.Template:Sfn This theory was proposed in 1929 by Akeksej I. Sobolevskij, and he suggested that Script error: No such module "Lang". was connected to a Central European name for the Kipchak (Qipčaq) Polovcians (Qūmans), which was Blawen, Blauen and a translation of the Slavic Plavci. All the Old Norse information on the Script error: No such module "Lang". date to the period 1016–1017 in the case of Eymundar þáttr and to 1122 concerning the Berroa battle (Saint Olaf's miracles), but the first mention of the Wallachians is in Niketas Choniates' Script error: No such module "Lang". and it concerns an event in 1164. Moreover, Pritsak notes that ON Script error: No such module "Lang". also had the meaning 'pale' which designated the first ruling horde of the Kipchaks who were one of the most important nomadic peoples in the 11th and 12th centuries.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

G 220

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This runestone is found in a museum in Gotland. It is a fragment of a runestone made of limestone and it was made in memory of a man who died in Novgorod. The inscription testifies to the intense contacts that existed between Gotland and Novgorod, where the Gotlanders had a trading station of their own.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

G 280

File:G 280, Pilgårds.JPG
Runestone G 280

This runestone was found in Pilgårds, but is now located in a museum on Gotland. It was dated to the last half of the 10th century by Wolfgang Krause. The runestone was raised in memory of men led by Vífil who navigated the Dniepr cataracts, and tried to pass the most dangerous of them, the Nenasytec', the Script error: No such module "Lang". of Constantine Porphyrogenitus (Eifor). When they arrived at Rvanyj Kamin' (Rufstain), Rafn was killed and the crew raised stones in his memory south of it.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Denmark

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

DR 108

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Runestone DR 108

This runestone is found in Kolind in Syddjurs Municipality, Denmark. It is in style RAK and it was raised in memory of a brother who died in the east.

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

Norway

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

N 62

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The Alstad runestone with the inscriptions N 61 and 62

This runic inscription is found on the same stone as N 61,Template:Sfn and they tell of the same clan.Template:Sfn Bjørn Hougen dated N 61 to 1000-1030Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn and Magnus Olsen dated N 62 to the 1060s.Template:Sfn It is in short-twig runes.

It relates of a man who died in a location in Eastern Europe, and there has been some scholarly debate on exactly where. Olsen read the location as Script error: No such module "Lang". ('Vitaholm, between Vitaholm and Garðar'), but in 1933, Lis Jacobsen suggested that the second toponym was Script error: No such module "Lang".. In 1961, an archaeological excavation in Vitičev, near Kiev, by B. A. Rybakov and Boris Kleiber, provided a solution. They discovered a beacon which had given fire signals to Kiev, and in Old Norse such a beacon was called a viti. The name Vitičev has no Slavic etymology, and so Kleiber suggested that its original name was Vitičev xolm, i.e. Vitaholmi.Template:Sfn The name Vitičev would originally have been Vitiča, a suffixed borrowing of viti.Template:Sfn Kleiber analysed the first part of the second Vitaholmi as usta, a genitive of an *usti which would have been how the Norse rendered the Slavic toponym Ustja (Zarub). Ustja was located on a hill near a ford across the Trubež, a tributary of the Dniepr.Template:Sfn According to Kleiber, Garða is a shortened form of Kœnugarðar, the Old Norse name for Kiev.Template:Sfn This solution reads the location of Þóraldr's death as "in Vitičev between Ustja and Kiev".Template:Sfn

According to Judith Jesch, Vitaholm may be related either to Witland, a historical region on the east side of the River Vistula,Template:Sfn or to Vindau on the coast of Courland.Template:Sfn

Kleiber suggests that Engli was a member of Eymund's warband which fought in the lands of Rus' during the first half of the 11th century.Template:Sfn

The inscription reads:Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Fs interlinear

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General References

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External links

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