A beautiful and very elaborate stone from Gotland lists all the workmen in this way, but marvellously also includes some extra, shaky little runes that do not keep to the main design scheme but meander untidily off into what should be a blank space: “and Gairlaiv [did] some as well he can”. One wonders if the team was on lunch break and came back to find their hapless assistant enthusiastically bashing away. Never mind—one could always fill it in and paint over, and it is not certain the patron ever knew.
