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Some runic stones. 27 



Of tlie raiser's name only .... IN (with the nom. mark -TJ) is 

 here left. 



IN, should it be so, is antique, the N not yet slurred. 



THUNAIM (TH for T as so frequently) is (THUNHAIM) TUN- 

 HEM or TUNA. There are yet several places so called in Sweden and 

 Norway, and there have been more. We cannot know whether there was 

 one in Helsingland, or whether .... IN was settled in Westergötland or 

 Norway or elsewhere. 



TINE, pillar-stone, grave-rnark, occurs very frequently side by side 

 with stone. And as we so often have ISTAN, ISTIN, etc. for STAN, 

 STIN, etc., so we as often have ITAN, ITIN, etc. for TAN, TIN, etc. 

 In my Old-Northern Runic monuments I have several examples of this 

 TAN, TIN, ITAN, ITIN, etc., and in my forthcoming ord volume I have 

 collected !) others. 



(raised). Only .... IT left. We have many examples of this and 

 other such verbs, 3 singular past, with the old 0- or F-ending. 



STHRIAS (= STRIAS) is a mansname I have never seen before. 

 It seems to be one of the rare epithets ending in AS (ANS). Perhaps, 

 with the so common elision of t*, it is = STRll*-AS, Battle-chief. 



The Scando-Gothic mansname RUNAR (RUNHARI) has not before 

 been found in runics, but we have the side-form RUNI with its fem. 

 RUNA. (Whether we take this RUN in RUNAR to be RUN a rune, or 

 RUNI (RONE) a Runnie, wild-boar, makes no difference to the argu- 

 ment.) The -LFRUNAR apparently points to ALFRUNAR, a name not 

 before met with. I prefer AL-FRUNAR, All-froiniei^, the Ever-frowninq. 



AFLA, to ABLE, i/et, occurs more than once before on our runic 

 stones. Here it is found, for the first time, in reference to the pillar itself. 



We have SUNAN-LANT, ac. pi. n., on the Maeshowe block, Ork- 

 ney, No. If). 



Thus, if the above be admitted, this ancient epitaph is now nearly 

 restored to lis, — thanks to Säve's drawing. Rut of course I only offer 

 my restoration — till a better comes. 



Should the LINI in the second line be the LINI UN'S SON of 

 the Malstad monolith, then the above (a)LFRUNAR was a brother of 

 BRISI LINA-SON, the father of FIHIULFI. The Tuna stone will then 

 be about GO years older than that at Malstad. Most likely this is so. 

 Both are Ohristian memorials. 



