10 c. Save and G. Stephens, 



He lias left no translatiou, but doubtless understood it as meaning: 

 IHUTHNIUT THRU SON LET WRITE (carve) STONE THIS, EKE (and) 

 BROW (hridfi(-this) GARED (imd<), AFTER (in mtmory nf) BROTHER SIN 

 (his) ASBIARN, EKE AT (to) HÜTHLAF. 



Save, by som accident, wrote ASBIURN, Iiut both his drawings 

 have ASBIARN. He tells us, on the opposite page (11) of his Note-book, 

 that Hög Church is ancient and of stone, with a wooden vaulted roof 

 in the shape of a star. Outside the principal door, in a small wooden 

 porch, he saw 2 stones formed like breasts, one on each side the door'). 

 Inside the door was a small wooden cross nailed on the wall. There 

 was an old font of sandstone (the sandstone cover was destroyed), once 

 finely ornamented, the tigures on the basin nearly gone, but on the base 

 dragons and lions were still left. There was an old grain-measure, in- 

 scribed »Petrvs Olai. 1681.» He also saw some parchment documents, a 

 thick vellum manuscript, and a book in 4to printed on vellum, unpaged, 

 as well as a manuscript on paper. These seemed to be excellent codi- 

 cegsy — Doubtless these costly things have been long since enquired 

 into and taken care of. Or have any of them perisht? 



I cannot help fancying that the first stroke in this Hög inscri- 

 ption was only a flaw or a commencing-mark, and that we must read 

 HUt'NIUTR (if the first rune be H), a name I have never seen before, 

 not IHUf^NIUTR, which, if it be so, is also found here for the first time. 



') Perhaps these were the bulb-shaped stones so often found on graves, of the 

 class ably described by Baron O. Hermelin (»»Stenkloten» på Attehögarne»), with 

 many illustrations, in »Svenska Fornminnesföreningens Tidskrift» (Stockholm 1875, 

 8vo), vol. 2, pp. 164 — 205. I believe these stones, however altered and convention- 

 alised, were all originally worshipt as Gods or Fetishes, Phallic Symbols, the Linga 

 and the Youi, Creation and Preservation, placed on the tumulus as triumphant em- 

 blems of Light out of Darkness, Life after Death. See FL Rivett-Caknac: »Rough 

 Notes on some Ancient Sculpturings ou Rocks in Kumaon, similar to those found on 

 Monoliths and Rocks in Europe» (.Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1877, 

 8vo), and A. Wildeu's edition of Westhopp and Wake's ».ancient Symbol Worship. 

 Influence of the Phallic idea in the Religions of Antiquity» (New-York 1875, 8vo). 



>) »Högs kyrka, gammal stenkyrka, med trähvalf i stjernform. Utanför hufvud- 

 dörren (i ett litet af trä tillbygdt vapenhus) 2 bröstformiga stenar, 1 pä hvar sida om 

 dörrn. I dörrn ett litet träkors fastspikadt i väggen. — En gammal Dopfunt af sand- 

 sten (locket äfven af sandsten, förstordt), uthuggen i f. d. vackra bilder. De pä skå- 

 len förstörda, men på foten bibehållna drakar och lejon. En gammal sädesskopa: 

 Petrvs Olai. 1681. — Åfven fanns der (utom åtskill. permebref) en nog tjock hand- 

 skrift på skinn, samt en bok i 4to tryckt på skinn, opaginerad, och en d:o på papper, 

 hvilka sågo ut som vackra handskrifter.» 



