30 RUTHWELL RunNic INSCRIPTION. 
anent was first made in 1856 by the Rev. Daniel H. Haigh, who 
in an article on the Bewcastle Cross said that there was only one 
man who could have written the poem from which this inscrip- 
tion was taken, and that was the great Caedmon. By the help 
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of the Vercelli skin-book and the casts taken by Mr Haigh from 
the cross, the late Professor George Stephens of Copenhagen 
was able to amend the text and add some words to the carving, 
and he says that he also found the name of the immortal bard. 
For he says at the top are the words Cadmon mae fauetho 
(Caldmon fawed or made me). In the 7th century, the date of 
the Ruthwell Cross, the South of Scotland formed a part of the 
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