Fig. 1296.—Bracteate; place of find unknown. Real size.—Stockholm Museum. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1297.—The largest existing bracteate, found at Åsum, Scania, Sweden, with _svastica_, in 1882. ⅘ real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1298.—Bracteate found at Upland, Sweden. Real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1299.—Reverse, with horseman apparently riding on the bare back of the horse. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1300.—Bracteate found at Gudbrandsdal, Norway. Warrior fighting a dragon. Real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1301. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1302.—Reverse. ] Bracteate found at Trollhättan, Sweden. Real size. [Illustration: Fig. 1303. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1304. ] Bracteates found at Slangerup, Zeeland. Real size. [Illustration: Fig. 1305.—Bracteate, Zeeland, Denmark. Real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1306.—Bracteate found in Scania. Real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1307.—Bracteate found in Scania. Real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1308.—Bracteate found at Raflunda, Scania. Real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1309.—Bracteate found at Lelling, Zeeland. Real size. ] One of the facts which attracts great attention is the different mystic signs[227] found upon bracteates and other numerous objects represented in these pages. These no doubt had some symbolical meaning, just as the Christian cross when used as an ornament, or placed upon a grave as a symbol. [Illustration: Fig. 1310.—Runic stone with three horns in the shape of triskele.—Snoldeley, Zeeland. ] Some of the signs appear to have been common to various nations, who probably adopted the same religion from which they spring, just as to-day the Christian cross is the emblem of numerous nations or tribes scattered over the globe. [Illustration: Fig. 1311.—Fibula of silver, plated with gold, in shape of svastica. ⅖ real size.—Woman’s skeleton grave, Fyen. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1312.—Fibula of gold ⅗ real size.—Skeleton grave, Fyen. ] The cross with four arms of equal length seems to be one of if not the most ancient of symbolic signs; it is seen on the rock-tracings of Bohuslan (of which several illustrations are given in this work), sometimes surrounded by a ring, at others a double cross is represented by itself. Such tracings cannot be taken for wheels or shields. [Illustration: Fig. 1313.—Fibula, ⅔ real size; appears to have been gilt.—Norway. ] Bronze knives, with a cross surmounted by a ring, are also to be seen. The _svastika_, or hooked cross, in its various modifications, seen on so many objects in the North, is of very ancient origin, and occurs in the Vedaic religion. [Illustration: Fig. 1314.—Bracteate of gold, real size, found with the door.—Tuft Church, Sandver. ]