. The Victoria history of the county of Cumberland. Natural history. REMAINS OF THE PRE-NORMAN PERIOD impossible from the character of the ornament on the slab, which suggests twelfth century work. Herr Vietor only says : ' The northern rune M (earlier R) shows that the inscription is not EngHsh in character.' We leave our tracing to the reader's consideration. The amulet ring found at Kingmoor in 1817 or 1818 (now in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Room) also bears runes, which appear to be a magical formula (see Stephens, Old-Northern Runic Monuments, i. 496 ; iii. 218). The Aspatria gold ar
. The Victoria history of the county of Cumberland. Natural history. REMAINS OF THE PRE-NORMAN PERIOD impossible from the character of the ornament on the slab, which suggests twelfth century work. Herr Vietor only says : ' The northern rune M (earlier R) shows that the inscription is not EngHsh in character.' We leave our tracing to the reader's consideration. The amulet ring found at Kingmoor in 1817 or 1818 (now in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Room) also bears runes, which appear to be a magical formula (see Stephens, Old-Northern Runic Monuments, i. 496 ; iii. 218). The Aspatria gold armlet, found in 1828, and now lost, had runes which were thought to read GEROT, but the drawings made at the time are not sufficiently exact to determine them (Stephens, op. cit. i. 160). The Anglian cross-head found at Carlisle in 1857, and now in the Fratry, has an inscription in uncials on both sides. At the time of its discovery Professor Westwood dated it about 700 , remark- ing that the forms of the letters were those of MSS. of that period. The peculiar S after the cross occurs in the Durham book and in the book of St. Chad. The word SIGTTEDIS was thought to be a female name. The cross of St. Bridget's, Beckermet, used to be called Runic, and it has been variously read; but the rubbings (still exist- ing) from which some of these attempts were made were very Fragment, found 1857. Carlisle. imperfect. There is no doubt that the letters are minuscules, rather tall for their breadth, with d for a. They may be read somewhat as follows— [line wanting]. r I n t a 1 g g n e iuan : icati- fos : fa : gelfe {or safe) rr To Mr. John Rogers of Barrow-in-Furness we owe suggestions leading to an interpretation which however must be regarded as only tentative. Considering the inscription as some form of Gaelic, and the q at the beginning of the third existing line as a form of d { a), the words might be expanded : '. . rinta le gne Iuan {mh)i{c) Cairabre, ithmigh aig fos fa se
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