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TRADERS AND TRADING-SHIPS. 



ing to Ethelred's time (998-1016) ; this number is not surpassed 

 in Britain itself, and the harvest still continues in the North. 

 A number came no doubt through the channel of trade, and 

 others probably from the Danegeld, Ethelred having thus paid 

 more than 167,000 Ibs. of silver; part of this war-booty fell to 

 the lot of the Swedes and Danes. 



Coins of the ninth and the earlier part of the tenth century, 



Fig. 1028. Fig. 1029. 



Old English silver coin, eleventh century, beginning of King Knut's reign. Real size. 

 Found under a large stone, by a landslip, with about 1600 silver coins, mostly 

 English, many German, some Swedish, Danish, Bohemian, and Kufic. Norway. 



Fig. 1030. 



Silver coin of Knut the Great, used as 

 a hanging ornament. Real size. 

 Blekinge, Sweden. 



Fig. 1031. Fig. 1032. 



Silver coin of Ethelred. Real size. Found 

 near Stockholm, with 737 Arabic, Ger- 

 man, and old English coins, and one coin 

 of the Swedish king, Olaf Skautkonung, 

 some fragments of silver bracelets, &c. 

 Upland, Sweden. 



are extremely rare, though England was much ravaged by the 

 northern countries. I think no coins have been found thus 

 far in Sweden before Alfred's date, and only three date before 

 950, but new discoveries may in time bring others to light. 

 In Denmark only a few hundred English coins have been 

 found ; of the time of Ethelred and his successors about three 

 thousand in Norway. 



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The earliest English and Frankish coins, strange as it may 

 appear, have only been found in Sweden and Norway, but 

 even these do not amount to more than fifty or sixty ; none 



