page_title: Viking runestones
section_title: U 611
hierarchical_section_title: Viking runestones / Uppland / U 611
caption_attribution_description: runestone
context_page_description: The Viking runestones are runestones that mention Scandinavians who participated in Viking expeditions. However, it is likely that all of them do not mention men who took part in pillaging. The inscriptions were all engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark. The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia: Denmark has 250 runestones, Norway has 50 while Iceland has none. Sweden have as many as between 1,700 and 2,500 depending on definition. The Swedish district of Uppland has the highest concentration with as many as 1,196 inscriptions in stone, whereas Södermanland is second with 391.
  The largest group consists of 30 stones that mention England, and they are treated separately in the article England runestones. The runestones that talk of voyages to eastern Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Middle East are treated separately in the article Varangian runestones and its subarticles.
  The most notable of the Viking runestones is the Kjula Runestone in Södermanland, Sweden, and it contains a poem in Old Norse in the metre fornyrðislag that refers to the extensive warfare of a man called "Spear":
  saʀ vestarla
  um vaʀit hafði,
  borg um brutna
  i ok um barða;
  færð han karsaʀ
context_section_description: This runestone carved in runestone style Pr1 is located at Tibble. It appears to be raised in memory of a man who died in the retinue of the Viking chieftain Freygeirr. Pr 1 is also known as Ringerike style, and this classification is used for inscriptions which depicts the serpent heads attached to the runic text bands in profile, but the serpents or beasts are not as elongated and stylized as in the Urnes style.
  Latin transliteration:
  biurn : auk : stnfriþ : litu : arisa s--n : afti : kisila : han : uti : fial : i liþi : frekis *
  Old Norse transcription:
  Biorn ok Stæinfrið letu ræisa s[tæi]n æftiʀ Gisla. Hann uti fioll i liði Frøygæiʀs(?).
  English translation:
  "Bjôrn and Steinfríðr had the stone raised in memory of Gísli. He fell abroad in Freygeirr's(?) retinue."
caption: Runestone U 611.
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