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. 107.—¼ real size.
Found with Fig. 105.
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Fig. 108.—½ real size.
Spear-heads, bronze.
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Fig. 109.—In a bog, Falster. ⅓ real size.
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Fig. 110.—In a bog, Jutland. ⅓ real size.
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Fig. 111.—In mound, Jutland. ⅓ real size.
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Fig. 112.—Upper part of bronze sword. ½ real size.—Scania.
Swords.—These peculiar bronze swords are found in various towns in
England and Germany.
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Fig. 113.—Spear-point of bronze. ½ real size. In a heap of coals with
twenty other spear-points.—Nordre Aurdal, Christiania.
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Fig. 114.—Spear-head of bronze. ⅓ real size.—Fálköping, Vestergötland.
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Fig. 115.—Knife of bronze. ⅙ real size. In stone coffin in a mound,
Island of Möen, in the Baltic, with a sword and a knife.
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Fig. 116.—Knife of bronze. ⅓ real size.
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Fig. 117.—Knife of bronze. ⅓ real size. In mound, Zeeland.
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Fig. 118.—Knife of bronze. ½ real size.—Halland, Sweden.
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Fig. 119.—½ real size. In urn, Holstein.
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Fig. 120.—⅓ real size. In urn, Fyen.
Knives of bronze.
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Fig. 121.—Bronze sword. ⅓ real size.—Vestergotland.
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Fig. 122.—Sword of bronze, ⅕ real size.—Lake Längsjon, Uppland.
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Fig. 123.—Dagger of bronze; full length, 24 inches.—Köngshöi find,
Denmark.
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Fig. 124.—Leather sheath for bronze dagger, handle of horn; in tumulus
at Dömmestorp, Halland.
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Fig. 125.—One-edged bronze sword, found in a bog, Östergötland,
Sweden. Length, about 20 inches. The only one of this type found in
the North. Prof. Stephens in his ‘Runic Monuments’ shows that the
type is Assyrian, and that it has come by the trade routes through
Russia into Sweden from Asia.
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Fig. 126.—Bronze shield with handle. ⅕ real size.—Denmark.
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Fig. 127.—Thin shield of bronze, ⅛ real size, found in a bog at a
depth of a little more than 3 feet. 66 inches full size diameter;
bird-like figures round centre.—Halland.
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Fig. 128.—One-eighth part of a small bronze shield, measuring only 27
inches in diameter, containing eight triangles; ½ size. In a bog,
Falster.
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Fig. 129.—⅓ real size.—Flensborg amt. Denmark.
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Fig. 130.—⅓ real size.
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Fig. 131.—Massive bronze axe, ⅓ real size, ornamented on three
sides.—Veile amt, Denmark.
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Fig. 132.—In Randersfjord, Jutland. ½ real size.
Bronze axes.
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Fig. 133.—Bronze axe; ½ real size.—Scania.
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Fig. 134.—Bronze axe; ⅓ real size.—Bohuslän, Sweden.
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Fig. 135.—⅓ real size. Ploughed up in a field, Zeeland.
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