24 C. 8âve anu g. Stephens, 



5. BAKLAF. 



(;. HATHUKI. 



7. FAH. 



8. UN. 



f». LINI. 



10. BHISI, married to AKTA. 



11. FIIIirLFI. 



(Governor of Helsingland about A. D. 1050. His 2 grave-stones were raised 

 by his son : I 



12. FKUMUND. 



13. THUÜMUND. 



14. SNRARIR. 



15. UN. 



(About A. I). 1150). 



Must of tliese monuments were not the work of simple or pro- 

 fessional or mechanical stonecutters. They were usually executed with 

 pious care by the sou or next of kin or some dear friend or comrade. 

 So with these double-stones in minne of FIHIULFI. They were carved 

 hi/ his son's otm hand. 



FRUiMUiNT KIT SÏAINA Î'INA AFTIR FIHIULFA. 



FRUMUNT FIHIULFA SUN FAÎ^I RUN AR fiSAR 



FRUMUNTR FIHIULFIS SUN RITI STAIN PlNA AFTIR FIHIULFA. 



I have already pointed out the differences of the unlixt word- 

 sounds (sometimes merely word-spellings) on the same block, here the 

 Malstad. And if we compare the tnw contemporaneous grave-slabs — both 

 carved by tlie same accomplis ht rnne-master — with each other, we have: 



Malstad: Stinna : 



FRUiMUNT, FRUMUNTR. 



RIT, RITI. 



STAINA. STAIN. 



FIHIULFA (gen.), FIHIULFIS (gen.). 



Should we read FIHIULFI SUN (not FIHIULFIS^SUN, as Save 

 has done), we still get FIHIULFA (gen.) as compared with FIHIULFI 

 (gen.). It is much better, as I have repeatedly said, to accept the facts 



