178 



RUNES. 



Fig. 302. Earlier runic inscription on a bluff, 11 feet above high-water mark. 



Y'tcbluiio-siires, Romsdal, Norway. 





'"wMc^i^s^S^^S? 



Fig. 303. Runic stone, having the longest runic inscription known, composed of 

 over 760 letters. Height, 12 feet; width, t> feet. In the Churchyard of R8k, 

 Ostergotland, Sweden. 



