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    Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys
    Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys
    Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys
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    Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys

    By James Anson Farrer

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys - James Anson Farrer

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      during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys, by James Farrer

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      Title: Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys

      Author: James Farrer

      Release Date: January 1, 2011 [EBook #34816]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTICE--RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS--ORKNEYS ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      MAES-HOWE

      Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

      Larger Image

      Plate I. GENERAL VIEW OF MAESHOWE.

      NOTICE

      OF

      RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS

      DISCOVERED DURING RECENT

      EXCAVATIONS IN THE ORKNEYS

      MADE BY

      JAMES FARRER, M.P.

      PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION

      1862

      CONTENTS.

      LIST OF PLATES.

      PREFACE.

      As the following pages are intended only for private circulation among friends and acquaintances, and for presentation to those few Public Societies to whom such a subject may be interesting, it is hardly necessary to offer any apology for the many imperfections in the description of Maes-howe, which may doubtless be pointed out, and for the brief and cursory manner in which the subject is handled. I desire only to give a plain statement of facts, in the hope that attention may be drawn to this interesting discovery, and possibly some further impetus given to the elucidation of Runic literature. I have received from the learned professors, whose translations are given, much valuable information, of which, however, I can only partially avail myself, in consequence of my very imperfect acquaintance with Runology.

      I may add, that every possible care has been taken to ensure accuracy in the drawings. These and the ground plans were made by Mr. Gibb of Aberdeen—of whose care and accuracy in the drawings of ancient monuments Mr. Stuart has spoken so strongly in his Sculptured Stones of Scotland, printed for the Spalding Club. The Runes were mostly drawn by my friend Mr. George Petrie of Kirkwall, and the drawings afterwards compared by Mr. Gibb with the originals in the building of Maes-Howe. Two separate sets of casts were made for me by Mr. Henry

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