48 C. Save and G. Stephens, 



necessary also from the elegant and complicated patterns used, which it 

 was not in every body's power to accomplish. 



And so of this FAf^I, one of the many words employed for MADE 

 and for CUT, and which is several times found on things bearing Old- 

 Northern staves. Usually it is N. SATI (s.) or N. N. SATU (pi.) fol- 

 lowed by N. FAt»I. Now we have, as the whole risting, N. FAM AT N., 

 where the dear friend ivas also the rune-cutter. Now we have the full 

 N. SATI followed by N. FAt>I RUNAR i>ISAR. Sometimes it plainly 

 means the whole j)iece^ runes and all, as on the Church-door at Väfver- 

 sunda, East Gotland, ASMUNTER FAÏ>I TYR t>ASAR, and Jättendal, Hel- 

 singland, where N. N. SATU but N. FAÎ>I STIN Ï^INA. Pieces with t-he 

 Old-Northern staves are still more decisive. On the Norse Einaug stone, 

 N. RUNO F^IHIDO, it means inscribed; as it does on the English 

 Alnmouth stone, FEGDE contrasted with WORHTE; while on the Ruth- 

 well Cross it means (ME FAUŒÎ'O) composed the poem there cut. But 

 on Bracteates 49 and 49 b, FIH^EDU, it signifies made this piece and 

 stampt these runes^ as it does on Bracteate 89, F^Jilt^^E. On the Norse 

 Charnay Brooch it means, FYt*^EI, made and inscribed^ as it does on the 

 English Osthofen Fibula, FUt*E. So on non-runic pieces. On the English 

 St. Edmund's Coin, N. MI FIET, it is coined and stamjjt^ while on the Eng- 

 lish palimpsest block at Lincoln it, FIET, signifies the enlarging of the 

 Steeple (EIRTIGN) of the Church. — Thus I see no reason for altering 

 my opinion, that FAPI here means: FAWED (made this Ring and stampt 

 these runes). Thus: 



IN (but) UIBIURN FA WED. 



The whole then will be, in freer and modernized language : 



1. ONE FIRST-RATE OX AND TWO OUNCES-of-siJccr SHALL RE 

 THE FINE FOR NO N-PAY3IENT-of -tithe, WHEN THE FIRST tithe-LEVY 

 IS MADE. 



■2. TWO SUCH OXEN AND FOUR OUNCES FOR NON-PAYMENT OF 

 THE SECOND YEARS RATE. 



à. BUT FOR THE THIRD nnpaki-tithe-LEVY, FOUR SUCH OXEN AND 

 EIGHT OUNCES SHALL BE THE MULCT. 



4. AND ALL THE DEFAULTER'S PROPERTY IS FORFEITED, IF 

 HE ALTOGETHER REE USE HIS LEGAL-tithc-ratc, CONTRARY TO WHAT 

 THE CLERGY CLAIM BY OUR FOLK-LAW, AS WAS BEFORE PUB- 

 LISHT AND FIXT. 



5. BUT THESE had-THIS-ring MADE FOR THEMSELVES, NAMELY, 

 ANUND OF TARSTAD AND UFAG OF HIURTSTAD. 



6. BUT UIBIURN MADE (THIS RING AND STAMPT THESE RUNES). 



