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In ScANDINAVIAs 
SCHETLAND AND 
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Not only human bones, but thofe of oxen, horfes, dogs, and fheep, have been 
found in thefe graves. Befides, were feveral forts of warlike inftruments, battle- 
axes, two-handed fwords, broad fwords, brazen daggers and fcull-caps, and fwords 
made of the bones of the whale: knives and combs: beads, brotches, and chains 
of ornament : a metal fpoon, and a neat glafs cup greatly corroded: {mall flat cir- 
cular pieces of marble: ftones shaped like whetftones, and fpherical ftones per 
forated, fuch as were in former ufe in Scotland for turning of fpindles: but the moft 
fingular thing was a thigh-bone clofely incircled by a ring of gold. “The tumuli 
feem to have been the places of fepulture of the inhabitants of the ifles: the 
graves, thofe of fome foreign nation who: had landed here, had a conflict, and prov- 
ed victorious. I found my conjecture on the arms and other matters found im 
them. The brafs were Norwegian *, the iron belonging to the natives ; but the 
weapons of conquerors. and*conquered were, with ceremonies refembling thofe at. 
the funeral of Pallas, flung into the graves of the victorious party. 
Hine alii fpolia occifis direpta Latinis 
Conjiciunt igni, galeas enfefque decoros, 
Frenaque, ferventefque rotas; pars munera notay, 
Ipforum clypeos; et non felicia tela : 
Multa boum circa maétantur corpora morti. 
The antiquities of this clafs found in Scandinavia are very numerous, and of'a: 
magnitude which evince the extreme population of the country. I difcover only 
three kinds. The firft may be exemplified in the vaft rounded earthen tumulus in 
Smaland, with a rude‘monumental upright ftone at top ;. and near it a fpherical 
ftone, beautifully carved, flung up in honor of Jngo King of Sweden, in the latter. 
end of the ninth century +: others in honor of Humblus, and Laudur brother 
to King Angantyr ; the laft furrounded at its bafe with a circle of rude ftones f. 
The Rambora Rolle is a mount of earth, with three upright pillars, placed fo as to 
form a triangular fpace f. Other tumuli confift entirely of vaft heaps of ftones. 
Several of the fepulchral memorials are formed of ftones difpofed in a circular 
form: fome of low ftones, like that of the Danifb King Harald Hyldeland, placed 
round the edge of the flat area of a low mount. He was flain in battle by Ringo 
King of Sweden §, who paid him all funeral honors, burnt his body with great 
pomp, and placed around his tumulus the numerous bodies of his faithful fol- 
Jowers who were flain around their prince ;, and their places of reft are marked by. © 
multitudes of {mall earthen barrows, with a fingle {tone at the top of each. On 
© Wormii Mon. Dan. 50. Dalbberg Suecia Antiqua, et Hodierna, tab. 314. +, Dablberg Suecia 
Antiqua, tab. 322. } The fame, 315. }: The fame, 323. §.Saxo Gramm, 147. 
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