WINELAND THE GOOD 



Another document of a wholly different nature, wherein pos- 

 sibly the name of Wineland is mentioned, has been found — 

 namely, the runic stone of Honen. 



On the estate of Honen, in Ringerike, there was found at the 

 beginning of last century a runic stone, which was still to be 

 seen there in 1823, when the inscription was copied. After- 

 wards the stone disappeared.^ The drawing made in 1823 is 

 now only known from a somewhat indistinct copy; but from 

 this Sophus Bugge [1902] has attempted to make out the runic 

 inscription, and he reads it thus: 



" Ut ok vitt ok f>urfa 

 |>erru ok ats 

 Vinlandi a isa 

 i ubygS at komu ; 

 auS ma illt vega, 

 [at] doyi ar." 



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The existing drawing of the runic stone from Honen, Ringerike 

 [S. Bugge, 1902] 



In prose this verse may, according to Bugge, be rendered 

 somewhat as follows : 



"They came out [into the ocean] and over wide expanses ('vitt'), and 

 needing (* t-urfa ') cloth to dry themselves on (' ^erru ') and food C ats '), away 



1 On the initiative of Professors Sophus Bugge and Gustav Storm, a 

 thorough examination of the spot was made in 1901, the first named being 

 himself present; but the stone was not to be found. 



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