Some runic stones. 



DELSBO, HELSINGLAND. 



Save never saw this block, but was in possession of a good draw- 

 ing, which he communicated to me 17 years ago. This I have had 

 facsimihed for VoL 3 of my )j01d-Northern Runic Monuments», and I here 

 give my text thereto, as it will appear in that work. I introduce it 

 there as bearing the now acknowledged local-dialectic ending -ÜR in 

 the gen. sing, feminine. This form was first pointed out by Carl Såj^e, 

 supported with fresh examples by myself, denied or explained away or 

 called »quite new» by others; but we now see, by a crowd of instances 

 — my Vol. 3 alone contains 6 additional such in runes — that- it was 

 not unusual and was spread (however exceptionally) over a wide sweep 

 of folkships in Scandinavia. For it was not confined to Sweden. My 

 oldest specimen is Danish, an »overgang»-stone (bearing Old-Northern as 

 well as Scandinavian runes) from about the first half of the 9th century. 

 The runic examjjles thus run down from the 9th to the 14th yearhundred. 

 But this form still lives in the folk-talk of the iland of Gotland. 



