General Notes

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Note: There is an inscription on a runic stone (Orkesta kyrka stone, Stone U344) from Yttergårde, Uppland, Sweden about son, Ulf, mentioning father Toste, and that he'd been on 3 Viking expeditions to England. There are inscriptions on two other stones:U 336 erected by himself and U 343 erected by his children after his death. All 3 probably stood at Bårresta farm.
Stone U 344 (2.5 meters tall. It was part of a building and removed in the 1800s and placed beside Orkesta church.): "But Ulv has in England taken three tributes. It was the first paid, that Toste paid. Then paid Torkel. Then paid Knut."
U-344 tells about his feats. He has been in England and no less than three times received ayment (danegeld) for not plundering. Knut is most certainly Knut The Great who seiged London in 1016 and returned home in 1018, and it is likely that Torkelis the Jomsviking cheif who came to England in 1009-1012. Knut's geld was paid in 1018. The stone is not signed but attributed to Åsmund Kåreson, as are many others, who was probably of Anglo-Saxon origin or lived in England for some time and mayhave arrived in Uppsala with Knut's troops in 1018. Sometimes he is identified as Osmandus, known to Adam of Bremen, who also came from England and was sent toPoland as a bishop by the Pope. Later he appeared as the bishop in the court in Uppsala.
Stone U 336 (1.65 meters tall): Ulv let raise this stone after Onåm, his father's brother. They both lived in Bårresta."
Stone U 343: Karse and . . . they let raise this stone for Ulv, their father. God and God's mother help his . . ."