page_title: Yakun
hierarchical_section_title: Yakun
caption_attribution_description: Runestone Sm 76. This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number 10301200210001 in the RAÄ Fornsök database.
context_page_description: Yakun or Jakun, deriving from Old Norse Hákon, was a Varangian leader who is mentioned in the Primary Chronicle and in the Cave monastery in Kiev. The chronicle tells that he arrived in Kievan Rus' in the year 1024 and fought in the Battle of Listven between the half-brothers Yaroslav I the Wise and Mstislav of Chernigov.
context_section_description: Yakun or Jakun, deriving from Old Norse Hákon, was a Varangian (Viking) leader who is mentioned in the Primary Chronicle and in the Cave monastery in Kiev. The chronicle tells that he arrived in Kievan Rus' in the year 1024 and fought in the Battle of Listven between the half-brothers Yaroslav I the Wise and Mstislav of Chernigov.
caption: The Komstad Runestone mentions a Hákon Jarl who is identified with the Norwegian commander Håkon Eiriksson and who may have been Yakun.
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