There are eight runestones in
Uppland that mention voyages to England. Several of them were raised in memory of men who had partaken in the
Danegeld in England.
U 194 This secluded runestone is located in a grove near Väsby,
Uppland,
Sweden. It was raised by a Viking in commemoration of his receiving one danegeld in England. It is classified as being carved in
runestone style Pr3 and, together with
U 344, it has been said to be the earliest example of an
Urnes style inscription in Uppland. When the text shown as Latin characters, the transliterated runes are doubled and separate words are shown. For U 194 has three examples where this occurred,
þinoftiʀ is transliterated as
þino| |oftiʀ,
tuknuts as
tuk| |knuts, and
anklanti as
a| |anklanti.
U 241 This runestone is one of the
Lingsberg Runestones and was part of a paired monument with
U 240. It is located on the courtyard of the estate Lingsberg in Uppland. It was raised by the grandchildren of Ulfríkr in commemoration of his receiving two danegelds in England. It is carved in runestone style Pr3.
U 344 The runestone U 344, in the
style Pr3, was found in 1868, at Yttergärde, by
Richard Dybeck, but it is today raised at the church of Orkesta, see
Orkesta Runestones. Together with
U 194, it is considered to be the earliest example of the Urnes style in Uppland. The runes are written from right to left with the orientation of the runes going in the same direction, but the last words outside the runic band have the usual left-right orientation. It can be dated to the first half of the 11th century because of its use of the
ansuz rune for the a and æ phonemes, and because of its lack of
dotted runes. This stone is notable because it commemorates that the
Viking Ulf of Borresta had taken three danegelds in England. the second one with
Thorkel the High in 1012 {{fs interlinear |lang=non |indent=2 |spacing=0.5 |class1=bold
U 539 This runestone is located at the church of Husby-Sjuhundra. It is one of the older runestones as it is in the
style RAK. It is raised in memory of Sveinn who intended to go to England but died en route in
Jutland.
Omeljan Pritsak comments that Sveinn probably died in the
Limfjord, Jutland, as the fjord was usually the starting point for campaigns against England. Jansson dates Svein's death to 1015, when
Canute the Great's great invasion fleet had been assembled in the Limfjord, a fleet that had many young warriors from Uppland. When the fleet departed for England, Sveinn was no longer aboard.
U 616 This runestone is located at Tång, and it is raised in memory of a man who died in battle in England. It is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr1, but the
runemaster is considered to have had little experience in the craft. The runic text contains a
bind rune, which is a
ligature combining two runes, for an a-rune and a
l-rune, which may have been done simply to save space.
U 812 This runestone is carved in runestone style Pr2 and was raised at the church of Hjälsta. It was raised in memory of a man's father who died in England. Based on its size and runic text, it has been suggested that U 812 was once part of a coupled monument located in a cemetery, but that the runestone with the first half of the overall text has been lost. Other pairs of runestones that may have formed a coupled monument in a cemetery are
U 49 and
U 50 in Lovö and Sö Fv1948;282 and Sö 134 in Ludgo. {{fs interlinear |lang=non |indent=2 |spacing=0.5 |class1=bold
U 978 This stone is located in the wall of the church of
Gamla Uppsala. It is carved in runestone style Pr2 and made of sandstone. It was made by a man who called himself "traveller to England" in memory of his father.
U 1181 This fragmented runestone is classified as being carved in the runestone style Fp and is located at Lilla Runhällen. It was raised by a man who had travelled to England in memory of himself. ==Södermanland==