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Literary Intelligence. 



[No. 3, 



55^ 



weight in ortugs. I have enumerated these at pages 1— ]Q # and 

 compared them at p. 13. I have shewn the probability that the 

 above mentioned weights were used for the weighment of coins and 

 precious metals, as the tola is now used in India, I have shewn that 

 there was a period, when the half-mark or 12 ortugs was regard- 

 ed as a superior unit, and that the ancient rouble of Eussia corre- 

 sponds in weight to the half-mark of Scandinavia, Finally I have at 

 page 24 given a list of several Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Indian 

 weights, of ancient dariks and of Sassanian gold coins, which have 

 all nearly the same weight. 



A belief exists among the lower classes of Scandinavians, that a 

 light sometimes appears over the sepulchral tumuli of pagan times? 

 indicating that a treasure has been deposited in the tumulus. I have 

 compared with this belief the traditions preserved in the life of the 

 Chinese pilgrim Hwen Thsang, concerning the light which it was 

 believed was seen over several Indian topes, and the efforts made by 

 the Buddhist priests to imbue the people with the belief in a luminous 

 power in the topes and dagobahs in the depths of the rock cut temples. 



Previous authors have instituted a comparison between the arms of 

 the gods of thunder, Thor and Indra, but have restricted themselves to 

 a comparison of their form and effects. To these I have added in 

 my memoir, a comparison of their consecrating power. 



The fourth pamphletf contains firstly a description of a little bronze 

 hatchet, lately discovered, and secondly the inventory of a sepulchral 

 tumulus which was opened eleven years ago at a spot, about twenty 

 leagues south of Christiania. Among other things were the skeletons 

 of three horses, one of which bore a saddle, the metallic parts of which 

 were of gilt bronze. "With this fact I have compared the customs of 

 the Tartars of the J 3th century, spoken of by Eubruquis and Jean du 

 Plan de Carpin who relate that the Tartar chiefs were buried with three 

 horses, one of them saddled." 



* Om Ortug eller Tola en Skandinavisk og indisk Vaegteenhed. 

 f Amuletter og om Stormsends Begravelse blandt Skandinaver i Hedenold 

 og blandt Mellemasiens Buddhister. 



