page_title: England runestones
section_title: Ög Fv1950;341
hierarchical_section_title: England runestones / Östergötland / Ög Fv1950;341
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Östergötlands runinskrifter Fv1950;341 ...-iur-&#160;: auk&#160;: as-iurn&#160;: þiR&#160;: ristu&#160;: stin&#160;: þasi&#160;: eft-R&#160;: uikfast&#160;: faþur&#160;: sin&#160;: es uas&#160;: tuþr&#160;: o&#160;: eklati&#160;: sun&#160;: helgu Funnen på Kallerstads ägor, S:t Lars sn. Placering: Utanför länsmuseet, Linköping. Datering: V ca 1025
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 dated to around 1025, and it was raised in memory of a father who died in England. It was discovered in 1950 lying with the text downwards on the property of the farm Kallerstad, only 200 metres from Ög 113. It was probably found in its original location since a road used to pass the stone. The stone had been broken into two pieces, but was reassembled and raised outside of the county museum of Linköping. The stone is in greyish red granite and it is 3.95 m tall (2.98 above soil) and 1.43 m wide, and the surface is quite weathered. The name Vígfastr is otherwise unattested on runestones and also the name Helga was quite rare. It is carved in runestone style Fp.
  The Rundata designation for this Östergötland inscription, Ög Fv1950;341, refers to the year and page number of the issue of Fornvännen in which the runestone was first described.
  Latin transliteration:
  ...-iur- : auk : as-iurn : þiʀ : ristu : stin : þasi : eft-ʀ : uikfast : faþur : sin : es uas : tuþr : o : eklati : sun : helgu
  Old Norse transcription:
  ...[b]ior[n] ok As[b]iorn þæiʀ ræistu stæin þasi æft[i]ʀ Vigfast, faður sinn, es vas dauðr a Ænglandi, sun Hælgu.
  English translation:
  "...-bjǫrn and Ásbjǫrn, they raised this stone in memory of Vígfastr, their father, Helga's son. He died in England."
caption: Ög Fv1950;341.
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