page_title: Baltic area runestones
section_title: U 346
hierarchical_section_title: Baltic area runestones / Uppland / U 346
caption_attribution_description: English: drawing of lost runestone U 346 in Frösunda kyrka, Vallentuna. This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number Frösunda 136:1 in the RAÄ Fornsök database.
context_page_description: The Baltic area runestones are Varangian runestones in memory of men who took part in peaceful or warlike expeditions across the Baltic Sea, where Finland and the Baltic states are presently located.
  Beside the runestones treated in this article and in the main article Varangian runestones, there are many other runestones that talk of eastward voyages such as the Greece runestones, Italy runestones, and inscriptions left by the Varangian Guard. Other runestones that deal with Varangian expeditions include the Ingvar runestones. In addition, there were also voyages to Western Europe mentioned on runestones that are treated in the articles Viking runestones, England runestones and Hakon Jarl runestones.
  Below follows a presentation of the runestones based on the Rundata project. The transcriptions into Old Norse are mostly in the Swedish and Danish dialect to facilitate comparison with the inscriptions, while the English translation provided by Rundata gives the names in the de facto standard dialect:
context_section_description: This runestone has disappeared but it was located at the church of Frösunda. It was made by the runemaster Åsmund Kåresson in style Pr3-Pr4, and it was raised in memory of a man who died in Virland. It contains the same message as U 356.
  Latin transliteration:
  [rahnfriþr * lit rt stain þino ' aftiʀ biurno sun þaiʀa kitilmuntaʀ ' hon ' fil a urlati ' kuþ hialbi hons ant auk||kuþs muþiʀ ' osmunr mar'kaþi runaʀ ritar]
  Old Norse transcription:
  Ragnfriðr let retta stæin þenna æftiʀ Biorn, sun þæiʀa Kætilmundaʀ. Hann fell a Virlandi. Guð hialpi hans and ok Guðs moðiʀ. Asmundr markaði runaʀ rettaʀ.
  English translation:
  "Ragnfríðr had this stone erected in memory of Bjǫrn, her son and Ketilmundr's. He fell in Virland. May God and God's mother help his spirit. Ásmundr marked the right runes."
caption: The runestone U 346 in a 17th-century drawing.
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