38 C. Save and G. Stephens, 



of the inscription had heen smoothed off, to make way for something 

 new, and the piece had thus been made into a pubHc monument or a 

 kind of mile-stone, as we see by the crown and date and monogram. 

 This last, says Save, is that of Fredrik Ulrik Insenstjerna, owner of 

 Gysinge and Hadeholm, and Lord-lieutenant (Landshöfding) in Västerås 

 1763. He was born in 1723 and died in 1768. Save has left no reading. 

 The whole inscription has probably been more or less to the 

 following effect: 



( raisti stin Jiina üiftir kiniu seni, uk ) ÜIFTIÄ 



MOKTR SENP). 



( raided stone this after (/uean (trife) sin (Jiis)^ eke . . . . ) 



AFTER MOTHER Sm( ? /lis). 



The grave-stone was therefore raised b}' a husband to his departed 

 wife, the Son (or Daughter) joining in this act of piety to his (her) 

 mother. 



Thus I have come to the end of these memorials. They are, as 

 we see, only »disjecta membra». But they are such as my old friend 

 Carl Save left them. Want of health and opportunity prevented a se- 

 cond visit and more careful drawings and paper casts and the final text 

 and translation and comment, ready for the press. But even so, such as 

 they are, they are of great value, and are yet another gift b}' this la- 

 mented Swedish Scholar towards the right study of his fatherland's mo- 

 numents and folk-talks. I have done the best I could with the scanty 

 materials at my disposal, anxious that they should not entirely perish or 

 be ignobly overlookt. This my anxiety must plead my excuse for my 

 inability to do them full justice. And at least I may hope that these 

 pages may in some degree, however small, help on the Rime-lore of our 

 common Northland, that our oldest national Speech-field in which Carl 

 Save workt so early so long and so well, and in which he gained his 

 well-earned title ^): 



MAÏ>R RUNSTR. 



•) At p. 184 of «Iv. Vilt.-, Hist.- och Ant. -Akademiens Månadsblad« for 1874 

 Dr. H. lIiLDEBRANi) says that tlie Stockliohn Acad, of Ant. has a drawing of this 

 stone by Lector C. F. Wiberc. in 1805, and that according to this it bears .... 

 IFTlif MOf'UR SIN, while Dr. H. himself (? in 1874] found the inscription to be 

 . . . . ÜFTIR MOPUU SINA. lierlf we have only 3 words, yet all 3 copiers have 

 redd them diftercntly! — Which is right? 



-) See the inscription on No. 18 of the Maeshowe stones, Orkney, in Old- 

 Northern Run. Mom. vol. I, p. 238: MAN KUNEST (most rune-skilled). 



