34 C. Save and G. Stephens, 



4. Carl Save: Note-book p. 23. No drawing. Gives the nines alone, 

 as copied by him 10 Sept. 1851. Only the main piece, and that with 

 errors. 



5. A drawing in my collections by Albert Berg and Vilhelm Upp- 

 ström in 1867. Only the main piece. Agrees with Bure, but the T 

 after RISTÜ was then gone. 



For greater clearness, I will parallel these readings: 

 Bure. RUALTR OK UTR LITU RISTU S(T)IN 1FÏR 



Baut. URANR OK UTR LITU RISTU S 



Lilj. VRATVI ok UTR LITU RISTU S 



Save. URANR OK ULR LITU RISTU S 



B. & U. RUALTR OK UTR LITU RISTU S 



Bure. IRM . . . ON LITSIA K lULBI ONTA . 



Baut U lULBI ONTA . 



Lilj U lULBI ONTA . 



Save lULBI 



B. & U K lULBI ONTA . 



We see that the careful drawing made by Berg and Uppström 

 exactly agrees with the very oldest by Bure, as far as it goes, and that 

 we may consequently depend on Bure for his copy of the fragment 

 which is now lost. 



I have therefore had photoxylographt their valuable drawing of 

 1867, but have added to it the now missing bit, as given by Bure. In 

 this way we get the following text, which is evidently correct: 



RUALTR OK UTR LITU RISTU STIN IFTR IRM ( . . .) ON LITSIA, 

 (faluir sin. Kii|) biarki o)K lULBI ONTA (hons). 



EUALT EKE UTR LET RIST (inscrihe) this-STONE AFTER IRM(. . .) 

 ON (of, at) LITSIA (father sin (their). God harg (save, bless) EKE HELP OND 

 (soul) (his)! 



We feel that we are here on firm ground. RUALT (= HRUMVALD) 

 is also found in runics as HRUALTR, ROi>UALDR, with a gen. RUHALTS 

 and an ac. ROUILT. 



UTR also appears in runics as OTAR, UTAR. 



RISTU is another proof of the N having fallen away in the infi- 

 nitive, which has colored (to 0, U) the foregoing vowel A (RISTAN, 

 RISTU, not yet RISTA). 



IRM . . . may have been IRMUNT, or some such name. 



