Some runic stones. 



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(ciud they are facts, else these costly monuraents are only useless stone), 

 rather than manufacture endless theories and systems about a »nnifor- 

 mit30j and »iron laws» which never have existed and never could, espe- 

 cially in periods and lands of mixt folk-talks ever in flux and change 

 and transition, till, from the archaic half Gothic (and also endlessly 

 fluctuating) forms of the first half dozen centuries after Christ, we come 

 to the merely convfntional and coiiunanded book-dialects of Charles the 

 Twelfth and Tegnér, Storm and P. A. Munch, Holberg and Oehlen- 

 SCHLÄGER, and the last Icelandic Newspaper! 



TUNA, HELSINGLAND. 



Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sc. Ups. Ser. HI. 



