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manner, which they not only make
nfe o f among themfelves, but intro-
duced ill their public writings. This
taile met with admirers among our
anceftors in Sweden, and thence we
find fo many kinds o f what are called
villrunes that were unintelligible to
the vulgar. See in Bautil, 25,
205, 331, 361, 539, 568, 571, 572,
581, 648, 748, 767, 817, 819,
822, lo o i , 1088, and many more in
Wormius. Perhaps what we call
among us heljinge runes, have alio no
other origin, as the greater part of
them only differ from the common
runes, by having the ilaff taken away.
It is however remarkable that our
gravers o f runes even made ufe of this
cryptographys in monuments ereded
to the memory and honour o f the deceafed.
It is further aiked, i f there are any
external or internal traces o f the co-
pyiil having confidered all the above-
mentioned pieces, or at leaft the three
firil parts, as a conneded work I
The anfwer to this may be found in
the title of the book, which is at length
in
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In the Goranfon edition, and runs
thus ;
Bok theffi heiter7 Edda; Heiine
hever fam fetta Snorri Sturlo f epter
theim hoeki, fern her er ihipat. En
fyrft fra Afum ok ymi ; thaFnaeft
ilcalld ikapar mal ok helci marga hluta.
Sidaz hoettartal, er Snorri hever ore
nm Hakon k. ok Skula Hertuga ; that
is. This book is called Edda ; and has
been compofed by Snorre Sturlefon, in
the manner it now ftands: viz. firft
of the afes and. ymi, afterwards the
language o f poetry, and its appellations
o f various things. Laftly, a
differtation of the veriifications Snorre
made upon, king Hakan and duke
Skule.
I mentioned in my letter to Mr*
Lagerbring, that the. Rubric was
wrote in a later hand.; which is
right, fo far as has been added after
the Edda itfelf was. begun, as may
be feen by the narrow ipace left
for it, fo that it has forced the co-
pyift to bring the laft line into that
immediately preceding it. Befides, I
dearly perceived that the inanufcript
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