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laysen,' who giv^es appi'oximately tlie year 1000 b. c. as the time of 

 their origin. Boor Emil Hildebrand^ places them in the broiize age 

 ti^oin the form of weapons rei)resented, wliile Hohni)erg'^ credits them 

 to the Vikings; the sculptures of that period, however, distinguish 

 themselves in a remarkable degree from those of the bronze age, as 

 shown in the Hiiggeby stone, in Upland, Sweden, and in theTjiingvide 



Fig. 40. 

 Runic Stone Found at Tjangvidb, Gotland, Sweden. 



( Reprodiired from Du Chaillu : Lan.l ol the MJdnight Sun. ) 



Stone, Alskog parish, G-otland (Fig. 40) ; similar stones of the Yiking age 

 occur in Hjerrniser, Jutland, Bornholm,^ etc. Viktor Kydberg-^' accepts 

 the bronze age theory from a comparison of the shape of the ships de- 



^ Mcolaijfien, JSf.: Langskibet fr:i Gokstad, Kristiania, 1882. 

 2 Hildchrand : Glyphs of Ostergotlaiul. 



■^ Holmhcru, A. E.: Skaudiiiavieus hiillristningar, Storkholiii, 184(3. 

 ^ Thorsen, P. a.: De Danske Riiiu'niiiKlosnKV'rkcr. Sicphois, <im.: Tho K'luiic Hall 

 in the Danish Old Northern Mnseiiin. 

 ^ DuUzer, L.: HohiisL'ins Hiillristningar, ISXl (introduction by Viktor Rydberg). 



