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at that time to learn warfare and win wealth and fame; that 

 property should not be counted with the inheritance, nor 

 should sons get it after fathers, but it should be placed in the 

 mound with themselves " (Vatnsdaela, 21). 



"The first age is called the age of burning ; then all dead 

 men were burned and bautastones raised after them. llut 

 after Frey had been mound-laid at Uppsalir many chiefs 

 raised mounds as well as bautastones to the memory of their 

 kinsmen. Afterwards King Dan the Proud had his own 



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mound made, and bade that he and also his horse with the 

 saddle on and much property should be carried to it when 

 dr;id in king's state and in war-dress. Many of his kinsmen 

 did the same afterwards, and the mound-age began in Den- 

 mark. But the burning age lasted a long time after that with 

 the Northmen and the Swedes " (Prologue of Heimskringla ). 



" The first age was the one when all dead men were to be 

 burnt. Then the mound -age began when all powerful men 

 were laid in mounds and all common people buried in the 

 ground " (St. Olaf s Saga. Prologue). 



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