page_title: Ingvar runestones
section_title: Sö 287
hierarchical_section_title: Ingvar runestones / Södermanland / Sö 287
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of runestone Sö 287 in Hunhammar, Botkyrka parish. Now missing. This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number 10000603900001 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 was located in Hunhammar, but it has disappeared.
  Latin transliteration:
  [× antuitʀ : reisti : stin : iftiʀ : huka : bruþur sin eʀ : uar : tauþe(r) : miþ : ink... ...k : iftir : þurkils bruþur : kuþan biarlaukr : irfi : lit : reisa : iftir : biaþr : sin]
  Old Norse transcription:
  Andvettr ræisti stæin æftiʀ Huga, broður sinn, eʀ vaʀ dauðr með Ing[vari, o]k æftiʀ Þorgils, broður goðan. Biarnlaugr ærfi(?) let ræisa æftiʀ faður(?) sinn.
  English translation:
  "Andvéttr raised the stone in memory of Hugi, his brother, who died with Ingvarr, and in memory of Þorgísl, (his) good brother. Bjarnlaugr, the heir(?), had (the stone) raised in memory of his father(?)"
caption: Runestone Sö 287 in a 17th-century drawing
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