Some runic stones. 



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ON is the antique preposition ON (AN), with the N still left, thus 

 not yet (A). 



The place-name LITSIA (or whatever it was in the nominative) 

 others must clear up. In Jämtland there is a parish called LIT. There 

 may have been a spot in Gestrikland called LIT-SIA, LIT-SEA^ Lake Lit. 



We have the formula TO BARG AiVD HELP on many other 

 stones, and the dative ONTA is common. 



All this is on the suppof^ition that we have substantially the true 

 text, which I believe, and that my arrangement of it is on the whole 

 correct. The mistakeft made by some of the copyists have arisen from 

 the peculiar interlacing of the runes, some of which may easily be mis- 

 taken the one for the other. These staves are the most elegant ever 

 yet discovered on any ancient runic monument, and show the stone- 

 cutter to have been a superior artist. 



THORSÅKER, OESTRIKLAND. 



Liljegren's No. 1055. — Bautil's No. 1097 is horrid. Bure's text, 

 Ms. Runah. No. 533, is: 

 . . . IN E>1X0 AT KUl'BIUHX I BHUPiß .... 

 .... KUNA UA MUE»IiRll . . MKIL . TAI 11 1 



K . K ANAIM4-SKASUA 



KUÎ'MUNTRO . ^RUKUIL. 



