14 O. Save and G. Stephens, 



My materials here are: Save's first sketcli of the runes (in his 

 Note-book p. 13, with a transliteration in common runes, all dated 2 Sept. 

 1851); drawings of both body and side, pieces not finally copied out 

 for publication; and a careful copy of the side-risting, sent to me in a 

 letter dated 28 Dec. 1872. It is Save's body-drawing and my side-draw- 

 ing which are here photoxylographt. This block is Liljegren's No. 1065. 

 Save says it was 8 feet high. 



Besides the above, a separate bit of paper again repeats the com- 

 mon runes. But another scrap has Save's reading written by him in 

 Roman characters, and this I here give. The order in which the staves 

 follow each other is that finally adopted by Save himself, in a letter to 

 me of 27 Dec. 1872: 



Outer make-wind: FKUMUNTR^RIT STAINA J^INA^AFTIi? FIHIULFA : 

 BRISA SUN : IN BRISI UAS LINA SUN ; IN LINT UAS UNA7i SUN IN UN 

 UAS FAHS^SUN IN FAH JiAfURIS^SUN 



Top right scroll: IN tA BARLAF IN ^A HUE'RUNR ; 

 Side. Left head: IN Vk NU I 

 Side. Right head: t*RIM HIUM 



Side. Right body: IN tA LANAHR IN tA Fit'R A SIU 

 Side. Left body; SIULFI72 UARP UM LANTI Î'ISU RI UIHA 

 Top left scroll: ARUA UAS "SWVlE FIHIULF(?I?A) ') 

 Inner snake-irind: FRUMUNT FIHIULFA SUN FAPl RUNAR f^ISATi: 

 UIJ^ SUTUM STIN PiNA NUR I j BALASTIN ; 



Save has added the following pencil-note: )j(UIR) SUTUM = Icel. 

 SÖTTUM, we took, fetcht, brought. Compare: skatt, er Egill hafôi sott. 

 Eg. Saga, 588.» '). 



This remark is quite correct. We have a similar slurring of the 

 K in this word, on the Fenne-Foss stone, Norway'), which ends: 



') Save's first sketch (Note-book p. KJ) gives, (iiiite distinctly, FIHIULFI. His 

 large linisht drawing, here engraved, has only a small portion of the last I. This 

 must have been a clerical error on Save's part. He evidently intended to draw 

 FIHIULFI. 



-) »(UIR) SUÏUM = isl. SOTTUM, vi togo, hemtade, jf. skatt», etc. 



■') See my paper in Archœologia, vol. 43: »On Scandinavian Runic Stones which 

 speak of Knut the Great» (London 1870, 4to) p. 3 — 8. The fragments taken out of 

 the chimney in 1875 were given to the Museum, Christiania. Prof. Ol. Rygh favored 

 me with paper casts, which establisht the general accuracy of the old drawing. But 

 for TUPiR and LlrNl^ (with the affixt article, which we had not expected on so 

 old a block) the fragments give TUpR and Llf^l PA. 



