page_title: Broby bro Runestones
section_title: U 137
hierarchical_section_title: Broby bro Runestones / U 137
caption_attribution_description: runestone at Broby bro, Uppland, Sweden This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number Täby 42:5 in the RAÄ Fornsök database.
context_page_description: At Broby bro in Uppland, Sweden there are six runestones. U 139, U 140 and U 151 still stand by the road, but U 135, U 136 and U 137 have been moved a distance away from the road.
  The last three stones are in the style Pr2 and thus dated to the period 1020–1050, but the internal relationship between them shows that U 137 is the oldest one. They belong to a group of c. 20 runestones called the Jarlabanke Runestones that are connected to the local strongman Jarlabanke and his clan. Together with the Hargs bro runic inscriptions and the Uppland Rune Inscriptions 101, 143 and 147 these particular runestones, however, centre on the matriarch of the clan called Estrid.
  U 137 tells that Estrid and Östen have a son named Gag who dies, and when it was raised Östen was still alive. The other stones constitute a twin monument telling that Östen has gone to Jerusalem and died in the Byzantine Empire.
  Estrid and Östen had three sons: Ingefast, Östen and Sven, who built a bridge and a barrow after their father. These twin stones show that Gag died as relatively young as he is not mentioned on them.
context_section_description: Latin transliteration:
  * aystin * auk * astriþr * raistu * stina * aftir * kak * sun * sin *
  Old Norse transcription:
  Øystæinn ok Æstriðr ræistu stæina æftiʀ Kag(?)/Gag(?), sun sinn.
  English translation:
  Eysteinn and Ástríðr raised the stones in memory of Kagr(?)/Gagr(?), their son.
caption: U 137
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