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IY._(1.) A'c; an "oak" tree. 
(2.) JEsc; an "ash" tree. 
(3.) Yr; a "bow." 
(4.) Uar; spoken of in the poem as an instrument of death, 
perhaps earh, or anve an " arrow." 
(5.) lor; said to be a "waterfish," but our glossaries 
give no such word. This is the last word explained in the 
poem. MS. Domitian, A. 9, has an explanation or ent, the 
"primaeval giant." 
(6.) Queorth. This is a strange word, apparently formed 
on the model of peorth, and the S. Gallon futhorc (/) gives to 
this character the form which peorth has in our own. But 
that futhore gives us also the rune yur for qur (as the Munich 
alphabet and the value q show that it should be), and over 
this character in Domitian, A. 9, the word cur is written. 
Now, hurra is the word for a " horse " in the Assyrian inscrip- 
tions, a word not Shemitic, but borrowed from the old Accadian 
language, and the late Dr. Hincks remarked the traces of its 
root in the Latin currere currus cursiis, and in the Teutonic 
hors. I believe, then, that queorth or cur is, equally with 
peorth and eoh, the sjnnbol of a horse. 
(7.) Calc ; I believe this rune is the symbol of a " thunder- 
bolt.'' 
(8.) Stan; there can be no doubt that this means "tin," 
Lat : stanmim, since a pig of tin preserved in the Truro 
Museum is not only stamped with this symbol, but bears its 
form. 
Y._(l.) aar. 
(2, 3, 4.) Names unknown. 
(5.) Vttlt; in that part of the Dialogue of Salomon and 
Saturn which speaks of the mystical properties of the letters 
which compose the Lord's Prayer, a rune is mentioned, 
immediately after cheg, which can only correspond to v in 
adveniat. Its form is not given, but instead thereof the 
