22 O. 8äve am> g. Stephkns, 



transliteration, and on yet another slip the answering- Latin letters, which 

 I here print. He has left no translation, but I add niy own, which is 

 donbtless such as he himself would have given. He remarks in his 

 Note-book that the copy was made 2 Sept. 1851, and that the old mill- 

 dam was then pierced by a canal and the mill moved lower down; but 

 that the block, of hard dark blueish-gray granite, was then lying among 

 other stones on the right bank of the canal '). He gives its height as (J 

 feet, and its breadth as 2 feet. 



FliüMUNTR FJHIULFIS^SUX KITI STALX PJXA_AFTI/i FIIIIL'I.FA 

 JUÎISA SUN : FRUMIWT Ix\ I^A tTHMlWT IN PA SNRAlili^ IN tA UN 



FRUMVNT FIHirLFIS-SON WROTE (inscribed) STONE THIS AFTER 

 (in mvntonj of) FIHIULFI BRISI-SON. 



FRUMUNT; IN (but) THA (then) THURMFNT: IN (but) THA (thm) 

 SNRARIR; IN (but) THA (then) UN. 



I do not think that SNRARU\ is )jmiscut)) or a barbarism"). It 

 seems to me onl_y one of the many instances of )ilocal lip)>, a twist in 

 the sound, and to be = SNARIR, a mansname signifying The Bold, the 

 Keen, the Swift-rushing. On the Låderstad stone. Upland, we have the 

 side-form SNARI, and on the Hjelteberga block, Upland, the side-form 

 8N0RIR; while on the Löfstad monument. Upland, we meet the fine 

 mansname SNERIBIARN, the brisk-turnhui Bear, Wringing-Bear. This 

 SNARIR answers to the Icelandic SNERRIR. Compare the illustrative 

 lines in the Eyrbj^ggja Saga, 30: »In his youth he was hard and un- 

 bending, and was therefore called SNERRIR, and thereafter SNORRP). 

 On one of Sâve's loose leaves he says : )»At the state-farm Jätten- 

 dal are 2 letters from Archbishop Jöns BENtrrssoN and Sten Sture the 

 Elder, confirming Karl Knutsson's separation of this property. — Are 

 they known?»*). 



') »Den gainlii qvarndamincn iir mi genombruten af en kanal och ijvainen llyttad 

 längre ned; men stenen (af hard, mörkt aråblä gråsten) ligger qvar bland stenarne pä 

 kanalens högra sida. v 



-) On this added 1\ see Kydqvist : Sv. Spr. Lagar, IV, 446 & fol. We see a 

 still inore peculiar insertion of T (STN for SN) in some old local codices, particularly 

 the Norse Barlaams A Josaphats Saga, ms. written about 1250, (Ungar, Christiania 1851, 

 8vo.), which has continually STNEROZT for SNEROZT, STNIALLR for SNIALLR, 

 STNUA for SNUA, STNIOR for SNIOR, STNEJIMA for SNEMMA, etc. etc. 



^) »Hann var heldr ûsvi'fr i œskunni, ok var hann af \)v\ Snerrir kalL'u^r, ok 

 eptir jiat Snorri » Evrbvggja Saga, herausg. von G. XiGFUtisoN. (Jjcipzig 18(i4, 8vo.) 

 ch. 12, p. 13. - • - - - ^ 



') »På kungsgården Jättendal iinnas tvänne bref af Erkebisp Jôn*< Bencjtsson 

 och Sten SruiiB d. ä., som stadfästa Karl Knutssons afsöndring af detta kronogods. 



— yVro de bekanta?" 



