Note 7 — Aus meinem Königreich

einige konnten mit dem Messer in Holzstäbe schreiben, some of whom knew the art of cutting (or scratching) letters in (willow-)sticks, with reference to the runic characters, which by the priests of the ancient Teutonic tribes, for the purpose of sorcery, were cut in pieces of smoothed wood, generally willow, and which were called “rûn-stafas.”