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TEADEES AND TEADING-SHIPS. 



mark was 8 aurar (1 oz.) ; one eyrir was divided into eight 

 ortugar, and one ortug into ten or sixty penningar ; this latter 



Fig. 1004. Iron weight, real size, inlaid 

 with bronze, weighing slightly over f oz. 

 Rosenbys, Gotland. 



Fig, 1003. Iron weight, real size, 

 inlaid with bronze, weighing 4f oz. 

 Gotland 



Fig. 1005. Bronze weight, size, found in 

 the real black earth, 





Fig. 1008. 

 The tongue of 

 the balance. 



Fig. 1006. One of ten 

 weights found with 

 balance. Real size. 



Fig. 1007. Bronze scales, \ real size 

 Later iron asre. 



-Vaxala, Upland. 



Bronze balance, with re- 

 mains of bronze chain 

 attached to it, found in 

 a round mound, with a 

 pincette of bronze, a 

 bronze ornament for a 

 drinking-horn, four or 

 five clay urns, &c. 

 i real size. Norway. 

 Earlier iron age 



is sometimes mentioned as being of gold ; it was customary 

 to weigh the medium of exchange. 



A man named Karl of Moeri was sent by King Olaf the saint 



