RUNES. 



and perhaps both, believed that they \\ere descended from 

 Siirurcl Fal'nisbani,the famous hero of the Yolsunga. 



Tin- tracing on the stone of Geek, not far trurn the city of 

 StreugeiuBS, is about half the length of that on the Ramsund 

 stone, but of the same width, and is not as fine. The subject 

 is treated in a somewhat similar manner: the hammer is on 

 the ground, while on the Ramsund stone it is in the man's 

 hand. Above the horse Grani is a Christian cross. 



The runic- inscription, here also upon a snake, surrounds the 

 liirures, but has nothing to say about Sigurd Fafnisbani. 



I-!,. :;-_"J. Oscan inscription (first three lines) on a bronze tablet in British Museum. 



Fig. 323. Greek inscription on bronze axe from Calabria, in the British Museum- 



Fiu. 324. Archaic Greek inscription in the British Museum. 



From the facsimile illustrations given of Etruscan, Greek 

 and earliest Roman inscriptions chosen at random from the 



