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. 1241.—Fibula of bronze found in a clay urn with burnt bones near
the border of a tumulus. Real size.—Norway.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1241A.—Fibula of bronze inlaid with silver. In a mound with
shield boss, spear-point and arrow-points of iron, belt ring, and
knife handle of bronze, and an ornamented leather belt. ⅔ real
size.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1242.—Fibula of bronze. Place of find unknown. 3/7 real
size.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1243.—Fibula of bronze inlaid with silver, found in a tumulus
with three other bronze fibulæ, fifteen gilt buttons, &c. ⅔ real
size.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1244.—Fibula of bronze, ½ real size.—Nordland, Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1245.—Fibula of bronze in a tumulus. In a mound with other
fibulas, a silver ring, &c. ⅔ real size.—Near Stavanger, Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1246.—Fibula of silver gilt. The most elevated flat parts are
niellés. There are many blue stones here and there, some fastened
with gold. ¾ size. Found in a mound, with three gold bracteates, a
spiral ring of gold, three small fibulæ of silver gilt of the same
type, a bronze key, pieces of a two-edged sword, a small spear-head,
&c., &c., unburnt bones and teeth of a cow and other animals, &c.,
and a quantity of burnt grain (rye).
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1247.—Fibula of bronze plated with silver work, found with a
bronze kettle filled with burnt bones, and covered with a slab; a
gold chain, and a spiral ring. Real size.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1248.—Fibula of bronze. Real size. Found in a funeral chamber of
stone, with two clay urns with burnt bones, a belt, ring,
&c.—Lödingen, Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1249.—Earring of bronze with glass beads. Real size. Found in a
round mound under a bronze kettle, glass beads, &c. The kettle
contained burnt bones, and was in a bed of charcoal and calcined
earth.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1250.—Fibula of silver gilt, partly niellé. ⅔ real size.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1251.—Fibula in bronze. Real size. Found when ploughing over an
ancient tumulus. Nearly similar in form to the fibulæ found at
Camirus, Rhodes. Not very archaic pottery.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1252.—Fibula, real size.—Bornholm, Denmark.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1253.—Fibula, real size.—Bornholm, Denmark.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 1254.—Fibula, plated with gold, only a little of the metal
remaining. Real size.—Southern Jutland.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 1255.—Buckle of a belt in silver and bronze, ornamented with
garnets _enchassés_. Real size. Earlier iron age.—Norway.
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