The Viking Age. Volume 2 (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 2 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
Fig. 1220.—Neck-ring of gold. ⅔ real size. Found under a big stone.
Weighs 11¼ oz.—Norway.
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Fig. 1221.—Pendant of gold, found in a field. Real size.—Öland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1222.—Neck-ring of almost pure gold, forming part of one of the
largest finds of gold ornaments ever made in Sweden, which weighed
over 27 lbs.; weight, 2½ lbs. ⅔ real size.—Thureholm, Södermanland,
Sweden.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1223.—Necklace of gold with a bracteate in the centre. Found in a
tumulus in Norway with two gold rings. ¾ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1224.—Necklace of silver. ½ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1225.—Pendant on necklace as seen from below. Real size. Found in
a tumulus, in a deep hole, made on purpose, with a fragment of a
silver gilt fibula, a small spiral ring of gold having been used as
money, five clay vessels, a glass cup, fixtures of iron for two
wooden buckets, one lever balance of spindle in clay, &c.—Norway.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1226.—Real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1227.
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Fig. 1228.
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Fig. 1229.
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Bracteates of gold found with other bracteates. ⅔ real size.—Norway.
[Illustration:
Fig. 1230.—Bronze fibula having the form of a tumulus; the pin of iron
has been destroyed by rust.—Helgö, Smaaland. Collection Wittlock,
Vexio. ½ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1231.—Fibula of iron, found with burnt bones in a clay
urn.—Tanum, Bohuslan. ¾ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1232.—Fibula of iron, found in a stone cist by the side of a
skeleton, with a clay urn and an iron sword, &c., &c., in Stora
Dalby, Öland. ⅔ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1233.—Fibula of silver, plated with gold, found in a stone cist
with a skeleton seated. ¾ real size.—Vestergötland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1234.—Fibula of silver, plated with gold, found under a stone
with several glass and silver beads. Collection of Captain
Ulfsparre, Stockholm.—Götland. Real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1235.—Fibula of bronze plated with silver gilt. ½ real size.
Found in a large sepulchral room built of slabs, with a bronze
kettle, two clay urns, &c.—Aak, Norway.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1236.—Fibula of silver found in a mound with a gold bracelet,
bronze ring gilt, bronze knife, and a broken urn, etc. Real
size.—Norway.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1237.—Silver fibula. Real size. In a mound with burnt bones and
charcoal.—Norway.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1238.—Fibula of silver gilt. ⅔ real size.—Scania.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1239.—Silver gilt fibula in tumulus. ½ real size.—Hagby, Öland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1240.—Fibula of bronze. Real size, found in a mound with a wooden
bucket ornamented with bronze, pieces of iron scissors, a flat ring
of gold, &c.—Near Stavanger, Norway.
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