General Notes

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Note: Toste (Tosti) was was one of the noblest and most powerful men in Sweden who was not of princely birth. he was a great warrior and had been on many Viking expeditions. King Harald Grenski (father of King Olaf, the Saint) joined in his expeditionsand took refuge with Toste one winter after his father, King Guthroth Bjørnsson was murdered by King Harald Graycloak, and he got to know and desire Toste's daughter Sigrid The Haughty, who turned him down and later had him killed.
He was reported in one csae to have lived at Vikinghøvding in Sweden. In 991 he led an large Swedish army of 25,000 men who hit England at Maeldun (Maldon, at the head of R. Blackwater Inlet about 33 miles NE of the center of London) and got10,000 pounds (about 5 tons) of silver as danegeld. In the English chronicles he was called Iustin.
There is an inscription on a runic stone (Orkesta kyrka stone, Stone U344) from Yttergårde, Uppland, Sweden about son, Ulf, but mentioning Toste, and that he'd been on 3 Viking expeditions to England. There are inscriptions on two other stones: U336 erected by himself (Ulf) and U 343 erected by his children after his death. All 3 probably stood at Bårresta farm.
Stone U 344 (2.5 meters tall): "But Ulv has in England taken three tributes. It was the first paid, that Toste paid. Then paid Torkel. Then paid Knut."
Then there is the Aarhus Stone no. V in Denmark: Toste and Hove and Frebjorn they have erected this stone after (the son of) Sakse, Asser, their fellow, the highly brave man. He died fully as a man of honour. He owned a ship with Arne."
# His own grave stone may be in Råsbo in Uppland, Sweden. Text: P. 139