Some runic stones. 9 



As we have nmie instances of both HRUÏ»R and RUMi, masc, 

 HRUt»A and RUÏ^A, fem., — nothing being more common than the di- 

 alectic absence or presence of the H, — so RUt*UR is here tlie same 

 as HRüi>UR, a uwmans-name in the genitive, as we all see from the fol- 

 lowing HANAR = her, gen. sing. fern, in apposition. 



UAR-IU can only be a place-name, added either because her fa- 

 mily estate was there, or else to distinguish this RUTHA from some 

 other lady of the same name. The variations of (this word for EY, He, 

 Hand) AÜ are manifold in our old dialects, especially in the oblique cases. 

 We have runic -lU elsewhere as a dat. sing. Where this VAR-EY was I 

 cannot say. An iland so called is in a channel to Bindalsfjord and Fol- 

 den, in Naimidal, Norway. This, by marriage and removal, mai/ have 

 been the spot intended. But there must have been other VAR-EYS; 

 place-names beginning with VAR were common. Perhaps there was a 

 VAR-EY near Delsbo, or in Helsingland, all which country, as we know, 

 swarms with lakes and ilands. 



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HOG, HELSINGLAND. 



;ï2EZIZL323ZniIZïSIEZI5I 



Liljegren's No. 1068. Save says (Note-book p. 10) the block was 

 6 feet 8 inches high. It is here given not after his rough sketch in his 

 Note-book but from a loose pen-and-ink drawing by him, from which he 

 intended to make a fair copy for publication. He has a runic translitera- 

 tion in his Note-book. On a separate piece of paper he has written 

 out the inscription in Roman characters, thus: 



IHUKNIUTR Î'KUSUN lit RITA STIX PiNA AH BUU HIR^I AFTIß 

 BRUt»R SIXA [ASBILTRN] ASBIARN, AH AT HUPLAF. 



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