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(5) . The futhorc and S. Gallen alphabet agree as to the form 
of the 15th ; the Munich alphabet gives to eliix a form more 
nearly resembling the English. 
(6) . The futhorc gives to the 20th rune the form which in 
all inscriptions belongs to the 23rd. The S. Gallen alphabet 
happily corrects the error. The 20th is always man. 
(7) . The Munich alphabet gives the 22nd rune with the 
same name as in the futhorc. 
(8) . The S. Gallen alphabet gives the 24th as well as the 
4th for o; the Munich alphabet gives the former alone. 
(9) . The futhorc seems to reverse the usual places of the 
25th and 26th runes. The S. Gallen alphabet gives both for 
a, and the Munich alphabet calls the former ac, so that we 
may believe they really stood as in the English futhorc. 
(10) . The futhorc has for the 27th rune the name yur, but 
the value q ; the Munich alphabet gives the correction qur. 
The S. Gallen alphabet gives the value 7; and another form of 
q. This will be explained when I come to speak of the names 
of the runes. 
(11) . The futhorc has aer for the name of the last rune ; the 
Munich alphabet ear and the value e. 
(12) . The Munich alphabet gives another form for calc. 
We may then correct the futhorc as in the second line, and 
we observe that the number of runes is twentj^-nine, and the 
variations from the EngKsh futhorc six. 
The three following from monuments I notice here only 
for the sake of comparison with the foregoing. 
{g.) A futhorc on the blade of a knife, or scramasaXy found 
in the Thames, consisting of twenty-eight runes, in the same 
order as in {a), save that the 20th to the 23rd are transposed. 
The 16th and 24th runes show the origin of the variants in 
Domitian, A. 9., and the 12th and 27th are curious varieties. 
(A\) A brooch, found at Charnay, in Burgundy, presents 
twenty runes in order, and inscriptions which help to supply 
