30 C. Save and G. Stephens, 



minne-stone, tho such would only cost some pence and a couple of hours' 

 work, — and the transcript by Ekdahl in Liljegren is simpl_y useless. 



Hence the above drawing, however imperfect as merely a first 

 attempt by a non-artistic hand, is of the greatest value to us. It even 

 renders possible the thought that the epigraph may be redd and the 

 lacune reasonably filled up. 



Save tells us in his Note-book that this piece was very much 

 worn, and was covered with figures of men and animals and birds, which 

 he was incapable of representing'). He has, however, given us a man 

 driving a cart, and 2 men playing at some table-game while a third is 

 otherwise employed. I only hope that it may not be impossible for us 

 f:tiU to recover the interesting figure-details of this sculptured slab! 



Its greatest height. Save says, was about 7 feet 8 inches, its 

 greatest breadth about 4 feet. It stood in the chamber behind the altar '). 



But I can find among Saves papers no single word about this 

 monolith, no attempt to translate it or grapple with its difiiculties. We 

 have therefore not the benefit of his guidance. But he has put-in the 

 runes so carefully, that we may perhaps look upon them as substantially 

 correct. 



x4.s a preliminaiy step we must see and acknowledge that the 

 formula is here very uncommon, and that the words must be handled 

 accordingly. Next, as to the staves, we must remark that we liave here 

 2 characters for S, the u, and the i, and that t (only found once) is ap- 

 parently used here with its olden value as ^, of which we have such 

 multitudinous examples. 



I would begin at the head of the worm-wind, and divide and 

 translate as follows: 



ßJ.ESA LIT RA ISA S(T)AI(N)-KUMBL PESA F(m ia|)u)K (sina . . . . )AUF- 

 Pa . F1;|PE(LF)K. S(IIli-TUTl)K ONS, S(T)I ONUM KAN-AN-FART PiSA. 

 ILEUMARX I OM UAN (R)UA-R [= RUNA-RITAR]. 



BLESA LET IIAISE STONE-CVMBELS THESE (tlu.sc nmve-iuarkimi 



d,m,-s) F(orfathe)R (sin = her, ) AUFTHI . FRITHELF, SWEOB-DAUGH- 



TEll ((Inuf/htcr-hi-lmr) HIS SET to-HIM KEK-ON-WABT) (marlimj heacon) 

 THIS . B.EUMAEN IN OM WAN (irorlt, niadc, carvid) these-BV NE- WRI- 

 TINGS (lims of nines). 



Thus, should the above be on the whole rightly understood, this 

 monument to SUART-HAUFÏ*I, or whatever the Ijroken name ending in 



^) »Runsten i niminet hak altaret. Stenen jiiminerligen sliten, full af figurer, 

 monnisknr, djur och foalar. Ritningen för stor, och flere figurer funnos.» 



