Some runic stones. 



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therefore, that this line gives us the names of the rune-carvers, often 

 exprest exactly as here. 



Under the cross. Another »twisting)' in Göransson, who has KUK 

 MUNTRI. The stone has not this. Bure gives KUt^MANTRO, Save 

 quite ph\inly KUHlANTEO, which I take to be correct, an archaic dative. 



The short band in Göransson reads t>RUKUÄl, in Bure t»RUKUIL, 

 in Save apparently teUKNATI, which gives a good and not uncommon 

 wordfall. 



I would propose then, as perliajjf< on the stone: 



TlilUI (RJSl) STIN fiNO AT KUfBIUKNA, BRCKtr SIN I 



MANALM. IS ... . KUÎ^MAXTEO fRUKNATI . KUTI, UAMU^^f-IR IUUKIT 

 (nm-rit). 



TRIVI (RAISED) STONE THIS AT (to) KUTHBIURK. BROTHER 



SIN (his) (Iter) IN MANAIM, AS (uho) tcith-KmUIUNT 



BRO WNEB (teas .shipureckt, was dnnaicd) . KUTI and- ÜA3IVTH THEY HEWED 

 (cut, inscribed) (this rune-writing). 



This attempt, however imperfect, may perhaps help others to a 

 better. 



HADE, or HADEHOLM, GESTRIKLAKD. 



I cannot find any notice of this slab elsewhere, and copy it from 

 Sâve's pencil-sketch, dated 16 Sept. 1851, in his Note-book p. 25. He 

 remarks that he found it in Hedesunda Parish (Socken), that it was of 

 red sandstone, was S'/^ feet above ground and about 3 feet broad. Most 



