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Gentleman's Magazine 1855 part 2 p.633
the first word, or any part of it; and perhaps no name is intended; but, in allusion to the masons' marks around the inscription, some waggish workmen, using characters not commonly understood, may have inscribed - "Tolf (twelve) ohnar (idlers) cut these marks on these stones." And yet, in that case, the last word should be plural, stainr, and not stain; but such violations of grammar are not uncommon in Runes. The inscriber of the puzzle may have come from the Isle of Man; for it is to this period (the tenth and eleventh centuries) that the inscriptions now existing there, in Scandinavian Runes, are referred by Professor Munsch.
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