PICTURESQUE SITES OF GHAl'l-:*. 



most fearfully in winter-time, and the sea dashes on the shore 

 in huge foamy white waves. 



In Denmark and parts of Sweden there are places on the 

 elevated points of the coast full of charms, looking over the 

 Sound, the Cattegat, the Baltic, or the waters of some of the 

 great lakes. Many of these resting-places of man are now 

 covered by forests, and upon some of the mounds huge oaks 

 sprung from the acorn of their sires tell forcibly of the 

 centuries that have passed over them. 



We can vividly realise why the people laid their dead to 



Fig. 710. Grave, Einang, Norway; diameter, 50 feet; earlier iron age. 



rest by that sea they loved so much during their lifetime, and 

 upon which they had sailed so often. The mariner as he 

 passed by could behold the graves of the dead and victorious 

 champions, whose memory was always kept fresh by the scalds 1 

 who sang his exploits generation after generation, thus filling 

 the youth of the country with pride, and making them wish to 

 emulate the deeds of these men, often their kinsmen of old, 

 who had gone to Valhalla. 



The mounds and cairns are not always round, they are 

 sometimes square, oblong, rectangular or triangular. The 



1 Poets, see vol. ii. p. 389. 



