Runes

Worsäae (*Primeval Antiquities of Denmark*, 1849) mentions that inscriptions are found in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, written in different languages in *Runic character*. He also mentions the fact of a Pagan Runic inscription occurring at Jellinge, Denmark, on the tomb of old King Gorm, A.D. c. 900, found in a huge barrow; and, at the same place, a Christian Runic inscription on the tomb of his son Harold. Has this inquiry been extended to British Runes, and might it not throw much light upon many monuments of dates prior to the Conquest? Crossed slabs with Runes have been found at Hartlepool…