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• The journey of Ingvar den Vittfarne-Ingvar the Far-travelled

  Vittfarne > April 11th, 2004, 08:00 AM

  
  
  
  The most well-known runic stone telling about Ingvar's journey is
  located at Gripsholm, the county of S?manland south of Stockholm.
  
  
  The journey of Ingvar den Vittfarne (Ingvar the Far-travelled) in the 11th century.
  
  Interesting inscriptions on about 30 rune-stones in the Swedish provinces of
  S?manland, Uppland and ֳterg?nd tell us about a great expedition
  into the east led by a captain called Ingvar.
  
  The Ingvar stones, as they are called, mention steersmen, ship?s captains
  and navigators. Ingvar was a chieftain, probably from the "Uppsala family",
  son of the great man Emund, grandson of king Erik Segers䬬. The expedition
  set about somewhere between 1036-1040 AD, when Ingvar was about
  25 years old.
  
  Archaeologists have argued about the precise course of Ingvar?s voyage,
  since the stones are not specific and the only written source that mentions
  the journey is a later medieval saga, in which the truth is difficult to
  determine. It is likely, however, that Ingvar followed the route to
  Byzantium, sailed around the Black Sea and made his way overland to
  "Serkland" the land of the Saracens (probably the land of the Abbasid
  Califat, with Baghdad as their capital) around the Caspian Sea. The
  expedition seems to have met with some terrible disaster ( perhaps the
  plague) in the present Georgia, and few, or none returned to the M䬡ren
  region.
  
  The stones erected by the parents and friends of those who died, perhaps
  raised many years later, serve both as a fitting tribute to the Viking
  ideology and as a memorial to a voyage that was the equal and more of the
  great journeys of the 9th and 10th centuries. One of the stones from
  Gripsholm, S?manland, bears the following inscription:
  
  "Like men they travelled far for gold, And in the east they fed the eagle,
  In the south they died, in Serkland".
  
  http://www.vittfarne.com
  
  :wink: :roll:
  
  

• The journey of Ingvar den Vittfarne-Ingvar the Far-travelled

  Vittfarne > March 9th, 2005, 01:58 AM

  The documentary from the Expedition Vittfarne will be shown on the Swedish Television (SVT 2) on 28 March at 19.00 Hours and on 31 March at 16.25.
  
  "Vittfarne" will also be shown on the satellite channel SVT Europe on 28 March at 23.35 and on 31 March at 13.10.
  
  "Vittfarne" - a Swedish documentary from 2004 (60 minutes).
  
  :clap:
  
  The summer 2004 the Association Vittfarne made a scientific expedition in the wake of the Swedish viking chieftain Ingvar the fartravelled one. Ingvar and his men are believed to have made the same journey eastwards with 30 ships during 1036-1041. The journey, which is described at around 30 runic stones in central Sweden, in the Islandic Saga and in the Georgian Chronicle, started at the village Zmievka (Kherson Oblast), went through Russia and Georgia, to Baku in Azerbaijan. The scientific expedition lasted more than three months and the Swedish Television had a photographer on board from the start to the end.
  
  Read more at:
  
  http://www.vittfarne.com
  
  http://www.scandinavica.com
  
  :jawdrop: :birthday:
  
  

• The journey of Ingvar den Vittfarne-Ingvar the Far-travelled

  Michael > March 9th, 2005, 03:26 AM

  Is there any chance this will be translated into English? I would like to see it.

• The journey of Ingvar den Vittfarne-Ingvar the Far-travelled

  Vittfarne > March 9th, 2005, 03:38 AM

  I am quite sure that the Swedish Television will sell this documentary to many countries so a version with English subtitles is probably already on its way.
  
  :roll: :bounce:
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