26 C. Save and G. Stephkn!*, 



This is Liljegren's no. 1067. The above is from Sâve's first 

 sketch, in pencil, Note-book p. 18, 19. Unhappily, I can find nothing 

 more among his papers than this outline, dated Sept. 1851. The size 

 he gives as 10 feet 3 inches greatest height, 10 feet greatest breadth. 



Below, he gives a strange copy of the staves by »N. J. Ekdahl, 

 16 March 1830: 



a. Tmiar in |)una lit hrista s|)ain aftir sun sin astria 



b. Atla |)unar sun Una stin b |)inr af j)lr aban 



c. In brusi arbiarnar faj)r raunar j»ina.» 



Liljegren's reading is better: 



a. ... — ... stin ))ina aftiR sunn sina j)ria fru|iin c in . . . — 



b. ... — ... If runaR sun L/na stin Jtina f . . — ... sum ■'<unan la . . . 

 c In Brusi AsbiarnaR ; sun fa|)i ; runaR j)ina. 



Save not having given any key to his drawing, all I can do is to 

 conununicate what would seem to i)e the meaning of his runes. These 

 are, apparently: 



a. ( ) INE IN f>UNALM IT ( )U PiXI AFTIR SUN SIN 



Sl^RIAS (....) 



b. ( ) FRUNA/i, SUN L(i)XA, STIN PlS.X AVUll, SUM SUNAN (....) 



c. IN BRUSI ASBIARNAi? ( ) RUN AT? f I ( . . ) 



When the old copies were made, the block had suffered less than 

 in 1851, when Save found it a wreck. It is therefore permissible to use 

 old materials, and in this way rescue something of what once stood, at 

 the same time tilling in a word or two by analogy with similar formulas. 

 We are not sure that each such added word was exactly so, but they 

 are useful and can do no harm. Trusting then to the older drawings, 

 but especially to Säve's, I suggest: 



a. (. . . . )lN7t' IN tUNAIM IT(In iaist)U PiNI AFTIii SUN SIN SpRIAS 



b. (auk at a)LFRUXAii;, SUN L(i)NA, STIN t'lNA^AFLIii, SUM SUNAN 

 (LAnts tu). 



e. IN BRUSI ASBIARNA72 SUN FAti RUNA7J Pi (?-sa, ? -na). 



This would seem to signify: 



a. ( . , . . )IN IN THUNAIM TINE (mark, pillar raLsrJI) THIS AFTER 

 SON SIN (his) STHRIAS (....) 



b. (and to a)LFRÜNAR, SON of-LINI, STONE THIS AB LES (yds, pro- 

 cures, raises), SUM (tvho) in-the-SOTJTHERN-LANB (out south) (died). 



c. IN (hut) BRUSI ASBIARNSON FAWEB (carved) RUNES THESE. 



