The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nationsDu Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
Fig. 50.—Clay vase; ⅙ real size. Found in stone cist in the mound with
an urn containing burnt bones, among which lay two bronze
knives.—Mound at Gjöttrup, near Lögstör, Denmark.
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Fig. 51.—Pot of burned clay; ¼ real size. Found in a mound with urns
and bronze objects.—Vidstrup, Hjörring amt, Denmark.
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Fig. 52.—Cinerary urn, ⅙ real size. Burnt bones.—Holstein.
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Fig. 53.—Cinerary urn, ⅙ real size. With burnt bones.—Jutland.
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Fig. 54.—Fragment of woollen cloth. Real size. Found at the bottom of
a mound at Dömmestorp, in Halland; in a fold of it lay a
well-preserved bronze poniard with its leather scabbard. The shawl
was 5 feet long and 20 inches wide.
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Fig. 55.—Maglehöj mound; height about 14 feet, diameter 40 to 50 feet;
with sepulchral chamber, height, 5 feet; width, 5½ feet; length, 7
feet. Inside the chamber the ground was laid with cobble-stones; on
top of these flint-stones, 2 to 3 inches in thickness; and then
again a layer of cobble-stones, and among these were found: a diadem
of bronze, two pieces of shields or breast-armour, the blade of a
dagger, &c., &c.—Zeeland.
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Fig. 56.—Floor of chamber.—Maglehöj.
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Fig. 57.—Interior of chamber with cinerary urn.—Maglehöj.
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Fig. 58.—Gold vessel, ½ real size, found with ten other similar ones.
All of 20-carat gold. Placed with the handles downward in the bronze
urn, Fyen (see p. 101).
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Fig. 59.—Gold vessel, ⅓ real size, handle surrounded with gold
threads. Found with a gold vessel in a mound, Zeeland.
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Fig. 60.—Bottom of the vase.
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Fig. 61.—Gold vessel, about ½ real size, found under a slab, Halland.
Weight, 2 oz. 5 dr.
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Fig. 62.—Design forming the bottom part of the vase. ¼ real size.
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Fig. 63.—Bracelet of solid gold, ¾ real size; weight, 6 oz.—Scania.
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Fig. 64.—Diadem of gold, ⅔ real size, Balsby, Scania; deposited,
together with four massive bronze axes, upon a slab below the
surface of the ground.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 65.—Hollow bracelet of gold, real size, found with four spiral
gold bracelets near a large stone.—Skärje, Bohuslan.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 66.—Spiral ring of double thread of gold.—Scania.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 67.—Pincers of gold. Real size.—Halland.
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Fig. 68.—Bronze pincers. ¾ real size.—Fyen.
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Fig. 69.—Bronze pincers. Real size.—Scania.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 70.—Bronze vessel, with representation of sun ship, with prow and
stern alike, as in northern ships. ⅓ real size.—Bog near Aalborg,
Denmark.
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