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Fi<r. 1079. 



Fig. 1080. 



Fig. 1081. 



Fig. 1082. 



io-. 1083. 



Fiir. 1084. 



Fig. 1085. Fig. 1086. Fig. 1087. Fig. 1088. 



Silver beads, real size, together with coins, &c., in a box in the earth, by a working 



man while digging a ditch, at Fblhagen, Gotland, near the Monastery de Roma, 



from a lot of 49 beads of thirteen different patterns. 

 Folhagen ground find, Gotland. The objects were in a copper box, which however 



could not be taken whole, and contained, besides some of the objects represented 



above, an iim;ot of chemically pure gold, 8 bracelets of silver, 835 Kufic coins 



(971), 400 German coins, the latest from Otto III. before 1002; 4 English coins 



of Aethelred, and many other jewels. 



Insurance companies were known from early times. 



" Damages are to be paid if a disease comes among a man's 

 cattle so that one-fourth or more of his cattle dies ; then the 

 men of the Hrepp shall pay the loss. The man shall call five 

 of his neighbours to him during the next half month after the 

 disease has ce;ised, in order to value his loss. He shall tell 

 them his loss and show them the flesh and the skin of the dead 

 cattle. Thereupon he shall take an oath before them that his 

 loss is as great as they estimated it, or more. Then at a 

 meeting he shall tell how great they valued his loss to be and 

 the boandr shall pay him one-half of the loss " (Gragas, i. 458.) 



" There are also three rooms in the house of every man 

 which are to be paid for if they are burnt. The first is stofa 

 (sitting-room), second is hall (eldhus), the third is the pantry 

 where women prepare food. If one owns both eldhus and 

 skali he shall at a meeting in the spring say whether he 

 wants people rather to be answerable for the eldhus or the 

 skali" (Gragas, i. 459). 



