Some runic stones. 11 



While copying the above for the press, I have received Prof. S. 

 Bugge's vahiable paper on the Forsa Ring in Helsingland'). At p. 37 foL 

 he touches on the Helsing-runes, and announces his discovery that ••■ and 

 >^ are not S, nor 4' H, as Olof Celsius the Elder said, but that ^ , ■V and 

 4 all 3 stand for K (and G). No H-mark in these runes, he observes, 

 has yet been found. 



In this case Carl Save's H must everywhere be altered to K 

 (and G). 



Prof. BuGCiE adds that -^ (p) as the sign for K has only once been 

 seen, and that here, on this Hög stone; but that this one instance is a 

 mistake, a break in the stone at this spot having misled Celsius. This 

 contirms Save's drawing. He has not, like Celsius, -^ in the word KIRt^I 

 (or GIRM), but 4, thus his HIRM, Bugge's KIRt>I (or GIRÏ>I). 



Prof. BuGGE adds also: )jOn the Hög stone we must read KUl*- 

 NHITR (not ISUÏ>NRTTR or IHUt>NKTTR), AK (not AH), KUÏ>LAF (not 

 Hl)ï>LAF), on the Sunnå stone FIKIULFISUN (not FISIULFISUN) ; 

 and in this same way a number of other errors must be corrected in the 

 earlier readings of the Malstad inscription.» 



Prof. BuGGE does not explain >rhr/ we must read KUÎ^NHTTR, in- 

 stead of IKUl>NIUTR, but I suppose he lookt upon the first stroke as 

 a flaw or a beginning-mark. 



Probably Prof- Save had communicated to him, as he had to my- 

 self, his idea that the sign formerly taken as S ought to be redd as H. 



HOG, HELSINGLAND. 



This pillar is No. 1069 in Liljegren. I can find no drawing of 

 it in Prof. Save's papers. But in his annotations or Note-book p. 12 

 is a pencil copy of the runes, and he sent me a revised transcript, ad- 

 ding that the block is 7 feet 6 inches high, 2 feet broad at the large 

 end and 15 inches at the smaller. He made out the runes to be: 



') »Rune-Indskriften paa Ringen i Forsa Kirke i Nordre Helsingland, udgivet 

 og tolket af Sophus BüGGE» in »Christiania Universitets Festskrift ved l''psala Uni- 

 versitets Jiibihinim i September 1877» (Christiania 1877, 4to). 



