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Swords seem to have been prized aliove all other weapons ; 

 occasionally their genealogy was carefully kept. Some swords 



Fig. 808. Ornament for scabbard. Real size. Upland. 



Fig. 809. Ornament of gold for mouth of scabbard ; 

 real size. Vestre Slidre, Norway. Weight, nearly 

 2 oz. 



Fig. sll. 



Gold ornaments in filigree for 

 sword-handle, found with the 

 neck-ring. Real size. Thu re- 

 holm, Sb'dermanlaml, Sweden. 



Fig. 812. Norway, real size. Silver mounting to a scabbard. Horseus. It lay 

 under a large c'layum filled with bones, together with a damaged double-edged 

 sword, spear-point, arrow-point, shield-boss, all of iron, fragments of iron shears, 

 and mountings to a drinking horn of bronze. 



caused death every time they inflicted a wound, from which 

 we must infer that their blades had been poisoned, either 

 during or after the forging. 



