28 A DANISH RUNIC STONE FOUND IN LONDON. etc., which owing to the well known niggardliness in letters prevailing in Runic inscriptions, must be understood as if there had been written KONAL or even KONALL : LET : etc. No kind of doubt can be entertained about any of the other letters, not even about the Runic letters t in the word pENSi although the stone seems to be a little damaged in this place. As the Inscription contains a complete sentence or proposition , so it also manifestly is quite entire, and there is no part of it missing: It begins at the limit of the stone’s sculptured part, and the reverting line almost reaches the same limit again. There is not room for a word more nor for a third line. Mr. Knowles’s assertion: that the Inscription is entire, is fully proved. But concise, and clear, and even entire as our In- scription is, it materially differs as to its stile from all Runic inscriptions hitherto known. Its place and posture render it in the highest degree probable that it is in some way or other monumental, and the human skeleton found to the North of it still further confirms such a supposi- tion; yet the person whose memory it was to preserve is not at all mentioned or in any way alluded to. This is as much contrary to custom as it would indeed be contrary to reason, if we suppose that this was the only inscription exhibited on this tomb. The ordinary stile of Runic tomb- inscriptions is quite simple and has in the most essential part of the inscription but few variations. It generally runs as follows: UN. raised this stone after (i. e. in memory of) N.’’, and if it is a Christian monument the prayer: uGod help his soul!” is commonly added. In every case the name of the person entombed is mentioned, and this seems to be so rational, that we cannot easily conceive how it ever could be omitted; such an omission

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