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To be translated thus : 



This Beacon of hoiior 

 set Hvvjetred 



in the year of the great pestilence* 

 after the Euler 

 after King Alcfricl 

 Pray for their Souls, 

 An effigy in profile is beneath in an arclied recess, liolding 

 a hawk in tlie left band. The monument commemorates 

 Alcfrid, eklest son of King Oswin, who reigned in Deira 

 from about A.D. 655 to 664. The inscriptions on the other 

 sides, also in Runic characters, give the name of bis father, 

 Osvvic Cyning elt, i.e. Oswin King the eider. 

 Of bis brother, Ecgfrid Cyning. 

 Of bis uncle, Oslaac Cyning. 

 Of bis step-mother, Eanflaid Cyningin. 

 Of bis sister, Cyniswid. 



And of bis friend, Wilfrid, Preaster, elected BIshop of 

 York, A.D. 664. 



THE RUTHWELL CROSS, 



DUJIFRIESSHIRE.t 



It is certain that at a very early period the j^illar was 

 erected in the church of Ruthwell, where it remained, and 

 was held in veneration tili the time of the Reformation, 

 and even after that period was preserved from demolition 

 to the middle of the 1 7th Century. Li 1642 an order was 

 passed by the general assembly for the destruction of the 

 ancient monument as idolatrous, dated July 27, at St. 



* Read also, "and carved (tliis) monument." 

 t See Memoir by Eev. H. Duncan, d.d., Minister of Ruthwell, read to 

 Souioly of Antiquaries of Scollaud, lOth Dec , 1832. 



