40 C. Save and G. Stephens, 



is a mistake, that the piece is Christian. Hence my translation in many 

 places falls away of itself, and Bugge's takes its place. 



For in vSept. 1877 appeared Bugge's 4to essaya) on this iron roundle, 

 with a separate facsimile of the runes draAvn and lithographt full size 

 by Mr. C. F. Lindberg. The first key to the whole more mysterious 

 section was my identification of the word LIUf*RIT(I). The next was 

 Prof. Olaf Rygh's excellent idea that AKU could only be = AGU, o/rn, 

 have. The third was Prof. Bugge's admirable LIRÏ^IR, thus stamping the 

 whole as Christian and enabling him so to use his great learning and 

 ingenuity as substantially to solve this difficult problem. In this he was 

 also assisted by the accident of his being a Norwegian, for his philolo- 

 gical instinct has recognized in certain things in the risting traces of 

 Old-yorse pecidinrities^ explained by the fact, also pointed out by Bugge, 

 that the folk-speech of olden Helsingland had some features in common 

 with Old-Norse. Thus, on the wliole, his version is in my opinion tri- 

 umphantly happy and probable. Hard points will always remain, and I 

 differ from him as to some words; but in general we must, I believe, 

 undoubtedly follow him in his construction and translation. All honor 

 to him for this his latest and ripest gift to Northern linguistic science! 



Carl Save made his drawings on the 4th and 5th of Sept. 1851. 

 They were engraved b}' me in my work. He himself never attempted 

 or publisht any translation. I therefore here repeat my 2 engravings of 

 the Ring, but I have had the runes CORRECTED according to the copy 

 given us hy Bugge '). I add my own nev version, chiefly based, as I shall 

 show, upon Bugge's, where he differs from my former text (for in some 

 things we of course all agree), but offering some changes, perhaps recti- 

 fications, of his reading. — Otherwise, for further details, I refer to my 

 vol. 2 p. 684, and to Bugge's exhaustive paper. 



As we see, following Bugge's corrected text, the runes are: 



') »Rune-Indskrifieii paa Rhigen i Forsa Kirke i Xoidre Ilelsinglaud». Chri- 

 stiania 1877. 58 pages, with phite. 



-) On these 2 blocks the runes (like as tlie King itself) are only 2-tliirils of 

 the full size, and they are sometimes more stiff' than in Bugge's lithograph, to wlùch 

 therefore, in this respect, I refer for minutia». 



