But, in fact, the two shortest of the Blekinge inscriptions have their own syntax, so we may distinguish the standing stone, which uses Megalithic Culture language (the Germanic substrate); the two smallest stones, which seem to be close to Standard Average European and raise the spectre of the Megalithic Cuture elite talking to the folks who actually moved the stones and grew the food and had spread out from a South-of-the-Pyrenees Ice Age refugium: these peasantry – we call them ‘Western Hunter-Gatherer’ – also spoke a form of Afro-Asiatic, related to Berber or else Cushitic…
…and the stone intended for a church, which used a syntax related to Latin…
And with the standing stone we see the habit of writing poetry for the ‘big moments’. So,, probably originating with the public pronouncements of the Iron Age elite, and, as we know, a custom maintained by Germanic peoples in their mead-halls…