page_title: Ingvar runestones
section_title: Sö 320
hierarchical_section_title: Ingvar runestones / Södermanland / Sö 320
caption_attribution_description: English: Runestone Sö 320 in Årdala parish, Flen, Södermanland, Sweden. This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number Årdala 52:1 in the RAÄ Fornsök database.
context_page_description: The Ingvar Runestones 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.
  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. It was a fateful expedition taking place between 1036 and 1041 with many ships. 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. Few returned, as many died in battle, but most of them, including Ingvar, died of disease.
  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.
  Beside the Tillinge Runestone in Uppland and a rune stone on Gotland, the Ingvar Runestones are the only remaining runic inscriptions that mention Serkland.
context_section_description: This stone is located in the park of the manor house Stäringe beside the runestone Sö 319. It is in style Fp.
  Latin transliteration:
  : kaiʀuatr : auk : anutr : auk : utamr : rita : stain : at : byrst(a)in * bruþur : sin : saʀ uaʀ : austr * miþ ikuari : trik : snialan : sun : lifayaʀ ×
  Old Norse transcription:
  Gæiʀhvatr ok Anundr ok Otamʀ [letu] retta stæin at Byrstæin, broður sinn, saʀ vaʀ austr með Ingvari, dræng sniallan, sun Liføyaʀ.
  English translation:
  "Geirhvatr and Ônundr and Ótamr had the stone erected in memory of Bjórsteinn, their brother. He was in the east with Ingvarr , an able valiant man, the son of Lífey."
caption: Runestone Sö 320
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