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
Small clay vessels found in an oblong mound at Greby, Bohuslån, found
with a clay urn filled with burnt bones, on which were fragments of
a bone comb, glass beads, &c. ½ real size. Earlier iron age.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 249.—Round clay urn, found in a mound, Greby, Bohuslån,
containing burnt bones and two melted glass beads, &c. ¼ real size.
Earlier iron age.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 250.—Clay urn, ¼ real size, containing burnt bones, found inside
a sepulchral chamber of stone, 6 feet long, nearly 4 feet wide, and
3 feet high, in a round tumulus.—Norway.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 251.—Cinerary vase of clay, ⅕ real size, found surrounded by
burnt bones in a mound at Björkö. Later iron age.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 252.
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Fig. 253.
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Fig. 254.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 255.
Four of seven mosaic glass beads, real size.—Broholm grave.
Of variegated colours, yellow, white, black, blue, and red, and of
different designs. Besides those represented were 26 blue glass
beads, one of which had red stripes, one red, another lilac; there
were also eight amber beads, different shapes, and a fibula of
bronze, to which was attached a coarse woven cloth, &c.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 256.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 257.
Iron knives, ½ real size, in an urn on the top of burnt bones without
coal and ashes.—Möllegaard, Broholm.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 258.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 259.—Porcelain beads, and beads of gold and silver mixed. Real
size.—Bornholm. Earlier iron age.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 260.—Curved iron knife, ½ real size, and with the remains of a
large urn containing burnt bones.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 261.—Iron knife, ⅓ real size; found in a cinerary urn containing
burnt bones, two pairs of shears, a buckle, awl, and ring, all of
iron; a bronze fibula, &c.—Möllegaard, Broholm.
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The following objects in one grave in Möllegaard will give a thorough
idea of the destruction wrought on the pyre.
[Illustration:
Fig. 262.—Handle of iron for kettle.—Möllegaard.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 263.—Remains of a damaged iron instrument and silver fibula
rusted together. Real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 264.—Silver fibula and other objects rusted together. Real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 265.—Iron comb, ½ real size. Möllegaard.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 266.—Blue and light green.
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Fig. 267.—Dark grey, with white eyes.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 268.—Red, with red, black, and yellow design.
Melted glass mosaic beads, real size.
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Fig. 269.
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Fig. 270.
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Fig. 271.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 272.
Four of eleven iron ornaments, shaped like buckets. Real
size.—Möllegaard.
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