CHAPTER XVI. 



GLASS. 



Vessels with painted figures Vessel? with Greek letters Drinking-horns of 



glass Cut glass. 



NOTHING perhaps can give us a better idea of the refined 

 taste of some of the Northmen than the beautiful glass objects 

 which have been found in different parts of the country. 

 Many of these are evidently of Greek, some perhaps of Roman, 



Fig. 629. 3J inches high ; 3&th inches 

 diameter. A brown bull, with a blue 

 band with brown dots, attacks a brown 

 bear. To the left a man in yellow coat 

 and green breeches, holding a whip in 

 nne hand, in the other a blue shield ; 

 to the right a stag, being torn by 

 a lion, both brown. 



Fig. 628. 2 inches high ; diameter 

 across top, 3 inches ; across bottom, 

 l T 7 B ths of an inch. A blue panther, 

 with grey or brown contours and dots, 

 attacks a brown stag ; on the other side 

 of which is a brown lioness. Between 

 the animals are circles of dots, brown 

 and yellow bv turns, with a brown spot 

 in their middle. 



These two vessels were found in a field, Nordrup, Zceland, in a grave 3 feet 4 inches 

 under the ground. It contained a skeleton, and, besides the two vessels, a Roman 

 bronze vessel and bronze sieve, a gold finger-ring, a silver fibula, forty-one beads 

 of glass and glass mosaic, a clay vessel, and fragments of two clay vessels. 



origin. Tn the museums of Italy, Greece, or Russia no such 

 exquisite bowls are found, which after having been painted 

 they seem to have been baked or subjected to heat in order 

 that they might retain their colour. 



Glass, as we have seen, has been found in the later bronze 



