The Pre-history of the North: Based on Contemporary MemorialsTrübner & Company, 1886 - 206 pages |
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The Pre-History of the North, Based on Contemporary Memorials Jens Jakob Worsaae No preview available - 2010 |
Pre-History of the North: Based on Contemporary Memorials (Classic Reprint) J. J. A. Worsaae No preview available - 2015 |
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Age of Iron Age of Stone amber ancient antiquities appear archæologists Asia axes Balder Baltic barrows Blekinge bogs Bornholm bracteates bronze objects Bronze-Age Bronze-culture burial burnt bodies Cattegat central Europe century Christian cists civilisation coasts coins colonisation connexion copper countries culture custom Danevirke Danube Denmark districts earlier east especially evidently extensive flint foreign Frey Frey's Fÿen Germany giant-chambers gods gold Gotland gradually Greece heathen Helheim horn implements influence inhabitants intercourse Iron-culture islands Italy Later Stone-Age marks ment metal Middle Iron-Age monuments national migrations north Germany Northern northwards Norway numerous Odin Odin's Öeland old Danish lands older oldest originally ornaments peculiar peninsula of Jutland period population prehistoric races regions Rhine ring Roman rune-stones runes Scandinavian North Scandinavian peninsula Scania Seeland settlements Slesvig southern spread stone graves style Svealand Sweden Sweden and Norway swords Thor tions traces unburnt Valhalla various weapons western whole Worsaae
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Page 4 - Nothing has hitherto been brought to light to warrant the supposition that mankind existed in Italy at a period anterior to the knowledge of agriculture and of the smelting of metals.
Page 56 - are now generally agreed that all the ancient bronzes found in various lands north of the Alps, from Switzerland to Denmark and from Ireland to Hungary and Wallachia, are of Etruscan origin.
Page 177 - a doubt that these gold horns, unique both in size and embellishment, originally formed a pair; and that, like other heathen representations in metal stone bone or wood, they were a sort of sacred picture-book kept in a temple and intended to preserve the kernel of the old theology for the people.
Page 162 - much of the riches gained in Viking expeditions was not used in this life, but buried in the earth, to be used yonder. The hero hid his treasure in a hole or sunk it in a spring, in some place where neither he nor
Page 17 - laid the foundation for the settlement of Denmark in particular, and subsequently of the rest of the North, is just as unknown as the time of their arrival extension and final expulsion or absorption by a dominant race of higher
Page 162 - come at it. The thralls who assisted in this were killed, either because dead men tell no tales, or more probably that the treasure might be watched by their souls. Such store gained by ' Viking' was not therefore to be reckoned as inheritance, nor could sons receive it after their fathers. They were bound to deposit it with them in the howe.
Page 146 - in Denmark, as for instance an angel of gold in deacon's robes an armlet with Christian symbols a ball of crystal a jewel carved with Christian Gnostic inscriptions in Greek (" Ablanathanalba," ie, Thou art our Father) brooches mountings with
Page 19 - A very long time must have elapsed ere the more highly developed races steadily advancing from south and west were in a condition,—as lake-dwellings stone graves and other memorials show,—to spread from the Mediterranean coasts over
Page 2 - the more our glance is directed to that epoch-making point of time, when the Creator wakened man in all his nakedness into life, and therefore most probably under a warmer sun in some more genial
Page 181 - become mere illustrations of the internal and external contemporary conditions of civilisation, the main features of which are already known in history.