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to the Faroes to collect taxes due to him. Leif, son of Ossur, 

 took the tax (silver) which Thrand had collected, ' and poured 

 it out on his shield " to Karl. They looked at the silver. Leif 

 said : 



Fig. 1010. Spiral silver ring, used 

 probably as money, % real size, found 

 with a little cup, 1,923 Arabian coins, 

 c. Vamblingo, Gotland. 



Fig. 1U12. 



Box, with top open, ^ real size, in which 

 there was a scale, ten beads, and two 

 ornaments of silver. Petes, Gotland. 



Fig. 1013. Fig. 1014-. 



Hook of iron. \ real size. Weight of iron. \ real size. 



With these were found two moulds of bronze, five unfinished fibula>, ornament for a 

 drinking cup, part of a bridle, a chain all in bronze, an iron key, the Handle of 

 which is of bronze, a blacksmith's pinco (nipper), and another weight of iron, &c. 

 Smiss, Gotland. 



" ' We need not look long at this silver ; here is every pen- 

 ning better than the other, and we want to have this silver ; 

 get thou, Thrand, a man to look on while it is weighed.' 



