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witliout descriptiou as to size, time, or place of finding-, or present 

 deposit. It is given because of a different form from any heretofore 

 shown. 



(iohl horns. — The chefs d'cinivre of prehistoric horns were the mag- 

 niticent ones found, respectively, in 1639 and 1734, in the little village of 



Fiy. 172. 



ox HORN WITH BRONZE MOUNTINGS, FOR EITHER MUSIC OR DRINKING. 



Gotland, Sweden. 



Moiiteliiis, AntUiuites Suedoises, II, p. 1 14, fig. Sfila. hi n.itur.il size. 



Gallehuus, on the western coast and in the Duchy of Sleswick, near 

 the boundary between Denmark and Germany. These instruments 

 are, or were, so beautifnl and valuable, and their history so well 

 authenticated, as to jus- 

 tify their description. 



On July 20, 1639, a 

 young girl of poor family 

 named Kristine Sven- 

 datter (daughter of Sve- 

 non) left her house to go 

 to the little village of 

 Tonder. Walkinginher 

 bare feet, she stubbed her 

 toe against what she 

 thought to be a root. 

 She struck it a blow with 



her staff", gave an imprecation upon it, and passed on. Some days after- 

 wards fate or luck caused her to pass the same way, and she struck her 

 toe against the same object, which excited her indignation if not her 

 wrath, and she determined to cut down or dig up the root which lay in 

 the path of travelers and which on these two occasions had served her 

 such a tr'u'M. She dug it out and found it to be this horn (fig. ITl). Cer- 

 tain neighbors gave her their oi)ini<)n that it was a huntsman's old tin 



Fig. 173. 



BRONZE HORN FROM SCANDINAVIA. 



Wor.saie . 



