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HORSES WAGGONS. 



Waggons are seldom mentioned in the Sagas, and no descrip- 

 tion of their appearance is given; but we learn that dead 

 warriors were sometimes put in them and burned on the pyre, 

 and the correctness of this statement is proved by the finds in 

 various graves, among others in one at Broholm, Fyen, where 

 fragments of a waggon have been found together with burnt 

 bones, a large kettle, several iron swords, shield bosses, gold 

 jewels, &G.J&C. But though remains of waggons have been found, 



Fig. 701. 



Fig. 702. 



Fig. 700. Fig. 703. 



Parts of perch of waggon with symbolic signs, Denmark. 



it was not till the discovery in the bog of Deibjerg, Riug- 

 kjobing in the North of Jutland, that we obtained a knowledge 

 of their shape and of the splendour of their ornamentation. 



In this bog two waggons of a similar pattern, one of which in 

 an almost complete state of preservation is represented here, 

 were discovered. The spokes of the wheels had evidently been 

 bent by heat, and the iron tires round them had apparently 

 been bent by force ; the pole, which was also richly ornamented 



