country Särkland ("Land of the Saracens", which here meant Georgia), where they took part in the Battle of Sasireti along with the Georgian Royal Army against Georgian rebels and Byzantine auxiliaries. Aftermath According to the legendary saga about Ingvar, only one ship returned. The 26 remaining runestones testify to this, as not one mentions a surviving combatant. The most common phrases are similar to the one on the Gripsholm Runestone: Adam of Bremen considered the disaster to be a punishment for the king's rejection of bishop Alvard of Bremen and his electing his own bishop, Osmundus, instead. Larsson suggests that the expedition was partly decimated by combat and that the saga's description of them being ravished by disease is a realistic scenario. See also Vikings Varangians Caspian expeditions of the Rus' Notes and references Sources Fischer, Svante (1999). Ingvarsstenarna i tid och rum. Larsson, Mats G. (1990). Ett ödesdigert vikingatåg. Ingvar den vittfarnes resa 1036–1041. Pritsak, Omeljan. (1981). The Origin of Rus'. Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Thunberg, Carl L. (2010). Ingvarståget och dess monument. En studie av en runstensgrupp med förslag till ny gruppering. Tunstall, Peter (2005). The Saga of Yngvar the Traveller. External links Svante Fischer (1999). Ingvarsstenarna i tid och rum Carl L. Thunberg (2010). Ingvarståget och dess monument The Ingvar Runestones on Google Maps (after Carl L. Thunberg 2010) Viking warriors Varangians 11th-century Vikings 11th-century Swedish people History of the Caspian Sea