I 1294] 
There are only two things in the Infcription (thus Inter- 
preted) that will need an Explanation. 
I. Who this ^/^W was And this is indeed a Que- 
ftion of that Difficulty, that I confefs, I am not able 
exadly to anfwer it. The proper name it felf is ordi^ 
nary enough in the Northern Hiftories j though Va- 
rioufly written: As, Echardus^ Echinardus^ Eginardus^ 
Ecardus^ and Eohhardus. 'Tis certainly a name of Va- 
lour, as all others of the like Termination 5 fuch as, 
Bernhardt Everhard^ Gothardy l{einhard^ &c. So that, 
it may well become a General, or other groat officer 
in ihQ Danijb Army: and fuch we have juft reafon to 
believe him to have been, who is here drawn into an 
example for the reft of his Countreymen. Our Hifto- 
rians are not very particular in their accounts ot the 
feveral Incurfions and Victories of the Danes s and 
their own writers much more imperfedt ; and therefore, 
in cafes of this nature, we muft content our felveswith 
probable conje<3:ures. 
z, Han men egroilen y which, rendered Verbatim^ is 
Have men turn d, i. e. was turnd. A phrafe, to this 
day, very familiar inmoft dialeds of the antient Celtic 
tongue s though loft in our Englijh. In the High-D^^^rA 
'tis efpecially obvious ; as, Man Saget, Man hatgefagty 
Man lobety 6cc. And the French Imperfonals [On ait. 
On faity Sec.) are of the fame ftrain 5 and evident Ar- 
guments that the Teutonic and Gaulijh 'Tongacs were 
antiently near akin. 
The eharadlers t -/i and are manifeft Abbrevia- 
tions of feveral Letters into one: of which fort we have 
great variety of examples in feveral of Wormius^s Books : 
And . fuch 1 take the Letter g to be, inftead of fandf; 
^ndi not Saxon I muft believe "J to be borrowed 
from the Saxons : and ? I take to be a corruption of 
their Y or W. The reft has little of Difficulty in it. 
Only the .Language of the whole feems a mixture of 
