قراءة كتاب 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
MAES-HOWE
Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.
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.
| Page | |
| PREFACE | ix |
| DESCRIPTION OF MAES-HOWE | 11 |
| THE EXCAVATION OF MAES-HOWE | 13 |
| BARROWS AT BOOKAN | 16 |
| Large Barrow Containing Graves | 17 |
| MOUNDS AT STENNES | 18 |
| BARROW AT TENSTONE | 19 |
| APPENDIX | 21 |
| Origin of Maes-Howe, and Date of Inscriptions | 21 |
| Readings of Inscriptions | 25 |
LIST OF PLATES.
| I. | General View of Maes-Howe from the N. E. | TO FACE | TITLE PAGE |
| II. | Interior View of Maes-Howe | " | PAGE 15 |
| III. | General Plan and Section of Maes-Howe | " | 20 |
| IV. | Plan of Central Chamber, Passages, and Cells | " | 20 |
| V. | Sections of East and West Sides of Chamber | " | 20 |
| VI. | Sections of North and South Sides of Chamber and Passage | " | 20 |
| The numbers on Plates V. and VI. show the situation of the slabs containing the Runic Inscriptions, which are numbered accordingly. |
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| VII. | Inscriptions Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | " | 40 |
| VIII. | Do. Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 | " | 40 |
| IX. | Do. Nos. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 | " | 40 |
| X. | Do. Nos. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 | " | 40 |
| XI. | Do. Nos. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 | " | 40 |
| [The Inscriptions are drawn on a scale of 2 inches to one foot.] | |||
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