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age : the ancient name for a miter in the North was gler, 1 which 

 was well known by the stone age people ; but we are aware 

 that glass was unknown to them. 



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Fig. 633. Fragment of a glass bowl of a green tint, 3 real size, found in a grave 



mound by Thorslunde. 



Fig. 634. 



Fig. 635. 



Fig. 636. 



Fig. 637. 



Fig. 638. 



Fig. 639. 

 Bonier of the vase. 



Fig. 640. 



Besides the glass vessels of Eoman or Greek workmanship 



1 The word amber occurs in three 

 earlier poems. Magical runes were 

 written cm gler. Sigrdrifumal. Pliny 



in his ' Natural History,' Book xxxv. 

 3, 42, speaks of amber as being " formed 

 in the islands of the Northern Ocean." 



