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the stump, and had it turned round. ()n one side it looked 

 ,-is it' it hud been bun:ed and rubbed. On this side she had 

 u small spot smoothed with a knife. Then she took her knite 

 and carved runes on it, and reddened it with her Mood. 

 ,siii<'inj !r words of witchcraft over it. She \\alked backwards 



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around the stump, in the opposite direction to the sun's course, 

 and pronounced many powerful incantations thereover. Then 

 she had it pushed out into the sea, and said it should be driven 



iv. -JS7. Stone axe with earlier runes ; rj real size. Upland. 



Fig. 288. Earlier runic inscription discovered (1872) on a perpendicular bluff '2u feet 

 high and about '200 feet from the shore, at Yalsfjord, Fosen, North, Throndhjem. 

 Tin- runes are carved in a perpendicular line from the bottom tip. Hardly 

 anytime is left of the letters. The Runes; ^ real size. 



out to Drangey, and cause ^reat mischief to (Irettir. A\ hen 

 Grettir was "cutting the stump for firewood with an axe, he 

 wounded himself severely above the knee 1 ' 1 (Gretti's Saga, 



c. 



The deeds of warriors were recorded on runic staves :- 



()rvar-Odd. \\hen very old, desired to revisit the scenes of 



his childhood, where a Volva had foretold him that his death 



would be caused by the head of the horse Faxi, at his birth- 



place, Hrafnista. When he arrived there he walked around on 



1 Cf. also GifttiV S:iga. c. G'2. 



