28 (J. Save and G. Stephens. 



NORRÅLA, HELSINGLANl). 



Prof. Säve's small pencil-drawing of this stone (greatest height 

 and breadth, he says, about 5 feet) is too rough to be engraved. But 

 he copied the runes (Note-book p. 20) on the Oth of September 1851, 

 and his transcript partly confirms and partly amends Liljegren'» No. 

 1061. His runes are: 



KM II RinfJüihKiini I :sim:i I iSiir^KSi ni fki t ; 

 K^DHli Bill ( )KKiM It 



Prof. Save has left no division and version of these staves, which, 

 as far as I know, have not yet been properly understood. 



ANASUIÏ>R I take to be a costly example of the antique ANAS 

 = ANS = AS, the later ASUlte, in Old-Engl. OSS Wit', 0S\MI>. I have 

 only seen this masc. once before in runes, on the Kolind stone, Jutland, 

 Denmark, where a TUKI is called SMIÏ>R OSUIHR, OSUITH'S SMITH 

 (artist). 



SAUFARAR is doubtless a womans-uame in the genitive. It is 

 properly an epithet, an adjective in the gen.- fem.-, the SEA-FERE., sea- 

 able, sea-strong., defying sea-sickness and fearlessly daring the wild waves. 

 She was therefore KATILBIURN'S wife or widow. Several old copies 

 have KATILBIURN. Save has distinctly the voweled form KATILBIU- 

 RIN. For the present we will suppose that he is correct. 



I divide then and translate: 



AxXASUllTt AUK^KL'TRIIvl! AUK SIKBIURN PlK LITU IIITA STIXA 

 IFTIE KATILBIUKIN, AUK ANUNT SUN HANS AUK SAUFAKAK. KUp 

 HIALBI A(tu |)aha! fa|)i ina)llKI fiTA. 



ANÄSVITH EKE (and) KVTIilK EKE SIKBIURN THEY LET WRITE 

 (inscribe) this-STONE AFTER (in Mimic of) KATILBIURN, EKE-oftcr ANUNT, 

 SON HIS EKE SA VFARA (son of Anund and Sauf ara). 



GOB HELP ONB (sotd) their)! 



( faioed (inscribed) ma)RK (y rare- mark) THIS. 



KATILBIURN and his son ANUND perish. Three surviving sons 

 or kinsmen raise this block to their memory. 



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