Description
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.'