OUR YE VNY BE Ss; 
the regal mount is a flat ftone, with five hollows in it, bafons to receive the blood 
of the victims *. Others confift of fmall ftones with AZaen-hirion, as the Welh ftyle 
them, lofty rude pillars, intermixed. In fome the leffer ftones depart from the circu- 
lar form, are oval or oblong : their edges are often contiguous, and thofe parts aré 
often marked witha lofty pillar +. Two pillars are fometimes found, with an enor- 
mous ftone fet from top to top, fo as to form the refemblance of a gateway t. Co- 
lumnsof great height are alfo found, furrounded at their bafe with two circlesof fmall 
ftonesq. Finally, the ftones are difpofed fo as to form wedges, fquares, long rows, 
as well as circles. The firft denoted that armies of foot and horfe had prevaled : 
the fecond, troops of warriors : the third, duels of champions: and the lat, the 
burials of families §. Multitudes of fingle obelifcs are {cattered over the country : 
fome quite plain ;, others infcribed with Runic characters, memorial of the dead, 
intermixed with well-fancied ornaments ||. 
In many of the tumuli are found the weapons and other matters which had 
been depofited with the burnt bones of the deceafed. In thofe of the earlieft 
ages are the {tone weapons, fuch as axes.and fpears heads made of flint. In 
others have been met with a fmall lamp, a key, and fwords of brafs of the fame 
form with fome of the Roman fwords**. A fuperftition attending the {words was 
fingular: thofe of higheft temper were fuppofed to have been made by Duergz, 
dwarfs or fairies, and were thought to have been irrefiftible. ‘The reader will 
not be difpleafed with the elegant verfion ++ of a Runic poem,. defcribing the in- 
cantations of a fair heroine, to obtain. the magical. {word out of the tomb of her 
deceafed father. 
Fhe Runic INVOCATION of Hervor, the Daughter of ANGANTYR,. 
Who demands, at her Father’s Tomb, a certain Sword, 
called Tirfing, which was buried with him. 
HERVOR. 
Awake, Angantyr ! To thy tomb, - Tirfing, made by fairy hands, 
With fleep-expelling charms, I come, Hervor from thy tomb demands, 
Break thy drowfy fetters, break ! Hervardur, Hiorvardur, hear! 
Tis Herwor calls—Awake! awake ! Lift, oh lift, my father dear ! 
* Dablberg, tab. 315. + The fame, and tab. 281. Olaus Magnus. J Wormii Mon. Dan. p. 63: 
§ I do not well underftand fome of thefe diftinétions ; but give them from Olaus Magnus, lib. i. c. 18. 
Moft of them are exemplified at Finfla in Saveden. See Dahlberg, tab. 104, and Perinfkiold Monum. 
Sueo-Goth. p. 216. 
| Wormii Monum. Dan. 64, & paflim. ** Dahlberg, tab. 314. ++ By my friend, the 
Reverend Mr, Williams of Vron 
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