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each side of the blade ; one of them Mr. Kjær reads 2ACIROMIC, 

 adding however, that his interpretation is doubtful, and that he can 

 not make out the meaning of it. I think that we have here the 

 Tery name we have seen on the sword from Røllang in Norway. 



II. Fragments of an old Boat from Halsnø. 



In Bergen's Museum some apparently insignificant fragments 

 of a boat have for nearly seven years been preserved without havhig 

 awakened any special interest. Revising the collection in 1902, I 

 accidentally took them into my study and, in trying to put together 

 the fragments, made a few notes upon the construction of the boat 

 itself. Some points at once struck me as being proof of a very 

 primitive construction, and the closer I examined these scanty re- 

 mains, the more firmly my opinion was estabhshed, that they form 

 part of one of the oldest boats known in Europe. In most respects 

 the boat is very like the famous ships found in the Moss of Nydam, 

 but some details, showing a ruder construction than that of all the 

 other ships yet known, make it a representative of a still earlier 

 stage in the history of shipbuilding, though we have no means to 

 fix its precise date. 



The boat, not being found in a complete state, had been badly 

 damaged, until it was tåken care of by a professional, Mr. B. E. 

 Bendixen from Bergen. Yisiting the place for antiquarian purposes, 

 he was informed that part of a little boat had been recently dis- 

 covered ; he at once procured the remains and sent them to Bergen's 

 Museum. In the Animal Report of the Antiquarian Society of 

 Norway 1 ) he has himself published the facts respecting the finding, 

 as they were given on the spot by people that were present at 

 the digging out. By kind permission of Mr. Bendixen I have 

 the opportunity to reprint his account, translated into English: 



„On the farm Øvre Tofte (the parish of Halsnø in Søndhord- 

 land) an old boat was found this year in a moss belonging to the 

 said farm and not far from the bay of Toftevaag. The level of 

 the moss is now 3.75 to 4 m. above highwater mark; most likely 

 it has, in earlier times, been a nearly round tårn which has by 

 and by been covered with vegetation and become overgrown. It is 



] ) Ab. 1896, p. 28 ss. 



