And, sharing his astonishment, but I think not his joy, I read on the western face of the block, in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages, this thrice-accursed name:
Et, partageant sa stupéfaction, sinon sa joie, je lus sur la face occidentale du bloc, en caractères runiques à demi-rongés par le temps, ce nom mille fois maudit: