page_title: Viking runestones
section_title: DR 266
hierarchical_section_title: Viking runestones / Scania / DR 266
caption_attribution_description: English: The runestone Uppåkrastenen DR266 in Hjärup, Sweden. Photo by the uploader. This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number Uppåkra 2:1 in the RAÄ Fornsök database.
context_page_description: The Viking runestones are runestones that mention Scandinavians who participated in Viking expeditions. However, it is likely that all of them do not mention men who took part in pillaging. The inscriptions were all engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark. The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia: Denmark has 250 runestones, Norway has 50 while Iceland has none. Sweden have as many as between 1,700 and 2,500 depending on definition. The Swedish district of Uppland has the highest concentration with as many as 1,196 inscriptions in stone, whereas Södermanland is second with 391.
  The largest group consists of 30 stones that mention England, and they are treated separately in the article England runestones. The runestones that talk of voyages to eastern Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Middle East are treated separately in the article Varangian runestones and its subarticles.
  The most notable of the Viking runestones is the Kjula Runestone in Södermanland, Sweden, and it contains a poem in Old Norse in the metre fornyrðislag that refers to the extensive warfare of a man called "Spear":
  saʀ vestarla
  um vaʀit hafði,
  borg um brutna
  i ok um barða;
  færð han karsaʀ
context_section_description: This runestone, classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, was documented during the survey of runestones in the 17th century by Ole Worm as being located at Uppåkra, but it was later moved about 200 meters during the 19th century to Stenshöggård.
  Latin transliteration:
  A nafni × risþi × stin × þasi ¶ aftiʀ × tuka × bruþur × si[n]
  B han × uarþ × uistr ¶ tuþr
  Old Norse transcription:
  A Nafni resþi sten þæssi æftiʀ Toka, broþur sin.
  B Han warþ wæstr døþr.
  English translation:
  A "Nafni raised this stone in memory of Tóki, his brother."
  B "He died in the west."
caption: Runestone DR 266
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