the 11th century than previously believed. According to a third theory, proposed by F. Braun, and which is based on the runestones U 513, U 540, Sö 179, and Sö 279, Ingvar was the son of the Swedish king Emund the Old and the grandson of Olof Skötkonung. Emund the Old would have had two wives, Tola and Ragnhildr. Tola would have been the mother of Haraldr of Sö 179, and Ragnhildr would have been the mother of Önundr, Eiríkr, Ragnarr, and Hákon of runestones U 513 and U 540. Önundr would be Anund Gårdske, who was raised in Russia, Eirík would be one of the two pretenders named Eric, Hákon would be Håkan the Red, and Ingvar would be Ingvar the Far-Travelled. Ingvar's origin was, however, debated as early as the saga writers, or to put it in the words of Oddr Snorrason: We do know that there are some saga tellers who say that Yngvarr was the son of [King] Önundr Óláfsson [d. 1060], because they think that it would be more honorable for him to be a king's son. And [they say that] Önundr would gladly give up all his realm if he had been allowed to bargain for Yngvarr's life, because all the chiefs in Sweden would gladly have had him [Yngvarr] as king over them. Expedition It is possible that it was King Anund Jakob or his brother and successor Emund the Old who mustered the Swedish leidang. The participants were evenly distributed along the husbys, and 24 of the 26 Ingvar runestones were from Sweden (in the contemporary sense, i.e. Svealand) and the remaining two from the Geatish district of Östergötland. The folkland of Attundaland did not take part and this was probably done on purpose in order to keep a defensive army in Sweden while the main force was away. Anund Jacob was the brother of Ingegerd Olofsdotter, who was married to Yaroslav I of Novgorod and who conquered Kiev in 1019 from his brother Sviatopolk. This was done with the help of the Varangians, and according to Ingvar's saga, they were led by Ingvar's father Eymund. In 1030, he had visited Ani, the capital of the Armenian Kingdom. Later Yaroslav had trouble with the Pechenegs, a nomad tribe. The expedition stayed for a few years in Kiev fighting against the Pechenegs, then in 1042 continued to the Black Sea and the Christian