Ingibiorg Hin Fahra Æhkia a Morhg Kona
Hæfir Farit Lut in Hir Mihkil Oflati.
Ingibiorg, the fair widow, or Ingibiorg the Fair, the widow. Many a rather proud woman
did walk here stooping (bent forward), or did walk stooping here in (into).
The Palm-runes underneath cannot be read in the usual manner; the first, third, and fourth of the runes being a, o, and i; the writer probably intended to give all the vowels, but some of the letters have been obviously miscarved, and have perhaps been altered and defaced at a later period by other persons. In the first of them a cross line has been added to shew that the letter
or (a) is intended.—Professor Rafn.
No. IX.
Thorny Saerth . . . Haelghis Raeisto.
The javelin pierceth . . . Haelghis carved.
Haelghis was probably an Englishman or Frislander. The inscription is much worn, and evidently very old. The last letter
is the old northern