The Viking Age (Vol. 1&2). Paul B. Du Chaillu

fragments of bronze and iron vessels, iron clinch nails, spurs of bronze and iron (showing that horses were used at a very early period in the North), clay urns, &c., &c. A remarkable fact is that the earliest swords seem to be chiefly single-edged, a departure from the shape of the bronze swords: the fragments of the shields are of wood, with heavy iron bosses and handles.

      Fig. 166.—Axe, ruined by cuts on its edge.—Norway.

      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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       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.

      Fig. 171.—Single-edged sword, from cinerary deposit at Kannikegaard. ⅕ real size.

      Fig. 172.—Found in cinerary deposit at Kannikegaard, one of nineteen nearly perfect swords. ¼ real size.

      Fig. 173.—Double-edged sword, found over a clay urn with burnt bones. ½ real size.—Öland.

      Fig. 174.—Shield boss. ½ real size.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 175.—Sword of iron, found with unburnt bones, fragments of a knife, and wooden scabbard. Kannikegaard. ⅛ real size.

      Fig. 176.—Bronze needle. Real size. Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 177.—Two-edged sword, found in cinerary deposit at Kannikegaard. ⅕ real size.

      Fig. 178.—Iron knife; ⅓ real size. Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 179.—Sword, Odense Amt Fyen. ⅛ real size.

      Fig. 180.—Bent sword. Real size.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 181.—Single-edged sword, found in cinerary deposit Bornholm.

      Fig. 182.—Single-edged sword, from cinerary deposit at Kannikegaard.

      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.

      Fig. 184.—Neck-ring of silver. ½ real size. Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 185.—Sword. ⅕ real size.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 186.—Spear-point, found near Kannikegaard. ¼ real size.

      Fig. 187.—Bent sword. ⅕ real size.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 188.—Iron comb, real size, found with an urn containing burnt bones of a child, &c., with other objects.

      Fig. 189.—Stone cist with three layers of stone on the top, containing unburnt bones.—Kannikegaard.

      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.

      Fig. 191.—Stone coffin, 7½ feet long, 20 inches wide, 18 inches high, showing how the beads were placed.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 192.—Fibula of bronze, plated with silver. ⅔ real size. Found in a piece of woollen cloth, with numerous beads, &c., in a stone coffin.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 193.—Bead of gold and silver mixed. Real size.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 194.—Mosaic bead, of red colour. Real size.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 195.—Mosaic bead, real size, found with a silver ring.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 196.—Glass bead. Real size.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 197.—Fibula of bronze: on its pin was a piece of linen—found with mosaic beads in a stone coffin. Real size.—Kannikegaard.

      Fig. 198.—Fibula of silver, with fragments of bone comb, long knife, with remains of wooden scabbard, &c. Stone coffin 9 feet long.