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. 167.—Shield boss, ruined by cuts, Norway. Found with a
double-edged sword, blade broken in two places, a bit for a horse,
&c. ⅓ real size.
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Fig. 168.
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Fig. 169.
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Fig. 170.
Half-moon shaped knives, sharp on the outside edge, with one end
ending in a loop or ring, and the handle twisted; found at
Kannikegaard. ½ real size.
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Fig. 171.—Single-edged sword, from cinerary deposit at Kannikegaard. ⅕
real size.
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Fig. 172.—Found in cinerary deposit at Kannikegaard, one of nineteen
nearly perfect swords. ¼ real size.
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Fig. 173.—Double-edged sword, found over a clay urn with burnt bones.
½ real size.—Öland.
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Fig. 174.—Shield boss. ½ real size.—Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 175.—Sword of iron, found with unburnt bones, fragments of a
knife, and wooden scabbard. Kannikegaard. ⅛ real size.
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Fig. 176.—Bronze needle. Real size. Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 177.—Two-edged sword, found in cinerary deposit at Kannikegaard.
⅕ real size.
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Fig. 178.—Iron knife; ⅓ real size. Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 179.—Sword, _Odense Amt Fyen_. ⅛ real size.
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Fig. 180.—Bent sword. Real size.—Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 181.—Single-edged sword, found in cinerary deposit Bornholm.
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Fig. 182.—Single-edged sword, from cinerary deposit at Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 183.—Sword from the grave-place near Horsens; found with a bronze
kettle, containing burnt bones, a heavy finger-ring of gold, a torn
shield-boss of bronze, a shield handle of iron with nails of bronze,
a spear-head, two iron spurs, one pair of iron shears, two knives,
one iron buckle, bronze mountings for a drinking horn, melted glass,
fragments of a pan and sieve of bronze, different mountings of
silver, numbers of pieces of melted iron and bronze; not far from
the grave were found more than thirty urns containing burnt bones,
and several skeleton graves.
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Fig. 184.—Neck-ring of silver. ½ real size. Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 185.—Sword. ⅕ real size.—Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 186.—Spear-point, found near Kannikegaard. ¼ real size.
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Fig. 187.—Bent sword. ⅕ real size.—Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 188.—Iron comb, real size, found with an urn containing burnt
bones of a child, &c., with other objects.
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Fig. 189.—Stone cist with three layers of stone on the top, containing
unburnt bones.—Kannikegaard.
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Fig. 190.—Inside of stone cist. Length, 6½ feet; width, 2 feet 10
inches; height, 22 inches. On left shoulder of skeleton, under the
right shoulder, on the breast and by the head, were silver
fibulæ.—Kannikegaard.
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