20 C. Sävk and g. Stephens*, 



FEU MU NT WEG TE (carvtd) STONE THIS AT TEE (in mimic of) FI- 

 IIIULFI BEISTS-SON; IN (but) BEISI WAS LINTS-SON; IN (hut) LINI 

 WAS UN'S-SON; IN (but) UN WAS FAH'S-SON; IN (but) FAH-uas HA- 

 TJIUETS-SON; 



IN (hut) THA (then-was) BAELAF; IN (hut) THA (tlun-nas) HUTHEUN; 



IN (hut) THA ithm-n-as) NU F (i„, of) 



the-THEEE-BOOS (= three-thorj), a (jroup <jf three }ioJdin;/s or homesteads or 

 farm-houses) ; 



IN (but) THA (then-uas) LANAH; IN (hut) THA (thm-was) FITH 

 (= FINN) ON (ai) SEA; 



[Fihiulfi himJSELF WAETH (became, Ucd to tjc), UM (about, within) our- 

 LAND, 



in-THIS his-HEITH (time, day), WIGA (Lord- Warden, Protector, Governor) 



(^ He liimself, ill his time, rose to the office of Lord-Frotector of this foJldand). 



AEUA WAS MOTHEE of-FIHIULFl. 



FEUMUNT, FIHIULFTS-SON, FAWED (cut, inscribed) EUNES THESE. 

 — WE SOUGHT (fetcht, hrowjht) STONE THIS NOETH IN BALASTIN. 



In the same way a« on this Malstad mmne, many of our finest 

 Northern runic death-pillars announce at their close (usually in verse, as 

 here) some memorable exploit of the deceast, or some great rank or 

 wealth or office which he had gained, ere he was called away from his 

 kindred and brothers-in-arms. 



As I have never been in Helsingland, and have no opportunity 

 of studying its minute topography, I do not know where the places here 

 called I telM-BIUM, A 8IU, and I BALASTIN were. Only, as to the 

 first, we still have similar compounds ; thus, TREHORNA in Jönköpings 

 and Östergötlands Län, TREHÖRNING-SJÖ in West Norrlands Län; 

 TREVATTNA in Skaraborgs Län, TREABOTHE (now TRIABO) in Små- 

 land, and several others. With regard to A SIU, it must have been a 

 common local name in water-rich Norrland. 



I cannot regard LANAHR as a stead-name, but as a mansname, 

 like all the others preceded by the well-known IN PA. I observe, how- 

 ever, that Prof. BuGGE (Forsa-Ringen p. 39) takes this LANAHR to be 

 the spot now called LÖNNÅNGER. I fail to see how LANAHR ever 

 could produce such a form as LÖNNÅNGER; still less can I beheve 

 that — in such a long pedigree, all connected by the formal IN PA, 

 written out or understood — one of the ascending names should sud- 

 denly become the name of a place. The 3 real place-names are given 

 with the usual prepositions I (IN) and A (AN, ON). And besides, we 

 have the acknowledged runic family names LA and NAH. Why should 

 we not divide LA-NAHR? The R is merely the nominative-mark. Here 



