DYR-HUS NEAIl AVRInGSTAD. 



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dilapidated and moss-grown as to be hardly recognizable ; 

 but innumerable memorials of these celebrated men are 

 nevertheless scattered over the face of the country. 



DYR-HUS NEAR WRANGSTAD. 



Amongst the most remarkable of the antiquities are 

 the places of sepulture, or the depositories of the ashes 

 of the illustrious dead, with which, during our little 

 shooting excursions, we very frequently fell in. These 

 go by various names. That depicted above is called 

 a Dyr-hus, though for no other reason, as some will have 

 it, than that at the present day cattle at times seek its 

 shelter. It is situated on an oblong mount, 23 paces 

 in length by 8 in breadth, near to' Wraugstad, in the 

 parish of Bottna. The Tackhdll, or roof-stone, which 

 is somewhat uneven and about 10 feet long by 7 broad, 

 rests in the middle on ten other stones, five on each side ; 



