page_title: England runestones
section_title: DR 337
hierarchical_section_title: England runestones / Scania / DR 337
caption_attribution_description: The Valleberga runestone (DR 337), Lund. Picture taken summer 2006. Pictures put together by me and published on wikipedia may 15th 2008.
context_page_description: The England runestones is a group of about 30 runestones in Sweden which refer to Viking Age voyages to England. They constitute one of the largest groups of runestones that mention voyages to other countries, and they are comparable in number only to the approximately 30 Greece Runestones and the 26 Ingvar Runestones, of which the latter refer to a Viking expedition to the Middle East. They were engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark.
  The Anglo-Saxon rulers paid large sums, Danegelds, to Vikings, who mostly came from Denmark and Sweden who arrived to the English shores during the 990s and the first decades of the 11th century. Some runestones relate of these Danegelds, such as the Yttergärde runestone, U 344, which tells of Ulf of Borresta who received the danegeld three times, and the last one he received from Canute the Great. Canute sent home most of the Vikings who had helped him conquer England, but he kept a strong bodyguard, the Þingalið, and its members are also mentioned on several runestones.
  The vast majority of the runestones, 27, were raised in modern-day Sweden and 17 in the oldest Swedish provinces around lake Mälaren.
context_section_description: This runestone is located in Valleberga at "runestone hill" in Lund. It is one of the older runestones as it is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK.
  Latin transliteration:
  A : suin : auk : þurgutr : kiaurþu : kubl : þisi ¶ eftiʀ : mana ¶ auk * suina
  B kuþ : hialbi : siaul : þeʀa : uel : ian : þeʀ : likia : i : luntunum
  Old Norse transcription:
  A Swen ok Þorgotr/Þorgundr gærþu kumbl þæssi æftiʀ Manna ok Swena.
  B Guþ hialpi siol þeʀa wæl, æn þeʀ liggia i Lundunum.
  English translation:
  A "Sveinn and Þorgautr/Þorgunn made this monument in memory of Manni and Sveini."
  B "May God well help their souls. And they lie in London."
caption: Both sides of DR 337.
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