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Memorial in Lerwick Town Hall to Alfred Laurenson, a local dignitary, patron and scholar of Scandinavian literature, who died in 1890.

The memorial includes representations of Viking ships, a raven, and a rather confused runic inscription which quotes Hávamál st 76:

Deyr fé,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjalfr it sama,
en orðstírr
deyr aldregi,
hveim er sér góðan getr.

The translation given on the information board is:
Cattle die, Kinsmen die, and so shall you die too. But one thing I know that never dies: the fame of a dead man's deeds.'

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http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/734

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http://www.shetland.gov.uk/lerwick-town-hall/default.asp

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Lerwick Town Hall

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Memorial - Modern

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Memorial to Arthur Laurenson with Quote from Hávamál in Runes

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