LIOX WITH KUXIC 



17!) 



Not only do the finds prove to us how extensive were the 

 voyages and journeys of the vikings, but many of the runic- 

 stones add their testimony to these and the sagas, often men- 

 tioning journeys in distant lands both for peaceful and warlike 

 purposes. There are four runic stones extant on which Knut 

 the Great is mentioned as "Knut who went to England" ; the 



Kit;. :iu4. Marble lion, with later runic inscription. Height, 10 feet. Now at 

 Venice, whither it was brought from the Piraeus in 1687. ' 



TTiingamenn or Thing amannalid is mentioned on at least two 

 runic stones. 



1 Rugge, by comparing Ihe runic in- 

 scription on the Pirteus marble lion now 

 at Venice, comes to the conclusion that, 

 while the damaged state of the inscrip- 

 tion makes it impossible to decipher it as 

 a whole, enough can, however, be read to 



show its approximate date, and also the 

 home of the tracer. The snake-slins* and 

 runes on this lion in all probability are 

 trnced by a man from Sweden, who has 

 been among the Vrerings or Varangians. 



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