Ingvar expedition
The Ingvar expedition (Swedish: Ingvarståget) is the Swedish Viking Age event that is mentioned on the most of the preserved runestones.[1] About twenty-six Ingvar runestones in Sweden refer to Swedish Viking warriors who travelled east with Ingvar on his expedition to Serkland, or the Saracen lands.[2] The expedition started in the second half of the 1030s and ended catastrophically in the year 1041, according to several Icelandic Annals, and was later the object for an Icelandic saga in the 12th century; the Yngvars saga víðförla.[3] The Ingvar expedition seems to have been organized mainly on the basis of today's Svealand. [4] King at the time was Anund Jakob.[5]
References
- ^ Larsson, Mats G. (1990). Ett ödesdigert vikingatåg. Ingvar den vittfarnes resa 1036–1041 [A Viking Fleet's Fateful Journey. Ingvar the Far-Travelled's Trip 1036–1041]. Atlantis. ISBN 9174869086.
- ^ Logan, Donald F. (1992). The Vikings in History 2nd ed., p. 202. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08396-6
- ^ Thunberg, Carl L. (2018). Fornnordisk historia I [Ancient Nordic History I]. CLTS. ISBN 978-91-981859-6-6
- ^ Thunberg, Carl L. (2010). Ingvarståget och dess monument [The Ingvar Expedition and its Monuments]. Göteborgs universitet. ISBN 978-91-637-5724-2.
- ^ Larsson, Mats G. (1990). Ett ödesdigert vikingatåg. Ingvar den vittfarnes resa 1036–1041 [A Viking Fleet's Fateful Journey. Ingvar the Far-Travelled's Trip 1036–1041]. Atlantis. ISBN 9174869086.
Further reading
- Fischer, Svante (1999). Ingvarsstenarna i tid och rum. Uppsala University. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:304444/FULLTEXT01.pdf
- Pritsak, Omeljan. (1981). The Origin of Rus'. Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. ISBN 0-674-64465-4
- Tunstall, Peter (2005). The Saga of Yngvar the Traveller.
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