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Haakon Schetelig. 



No. 7 



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frames, Mr. Bendixen has tried to make out some details from the 

 description given by people who had seen the fragment of the boat 

 in a complete condition. But his remarks being very imperfect and 



giving no clear impression of the con- 

 struction, I have thought it better to 

 omit them here. 



I prefer to mention some further 

 details from the preserved fragments. 

 In one of the boards, a knot having 

 partly given way, the hole thus produced 

 is filled with a plug of the coarse cloth 

 above mentioned. At another poiiit, a 

 crack in the board is repaired with 

 three stitches made with thick thread, 

 "V 1 I '' llllf soaked in tar (fig. 6 and 7). 



The work as a whole is carelessly 

 executed. We can nowhere trace a spe- 

 cial pursuit of pleasant forms or see that 

 the least effort has been made to give 

 the work a more accomplished appear- 

 ance. Carved or incised ornaments are 

 totally wanting. The surfaces are simply 

 cut with an axe, especially the sloping 

 sides of the cleats bearing distinct marks 

 of the different cuts. The cleats them- 

 selves, varying not a little in size and 

 form, prove that it has been far from 

 the workman's thoughts to execute them 

 with minute correctness. From all this, 

 it is an ordinary boat, probably such as 

 å were at that time usually made along 



the coast of Norwa)'. 



To make out at what time this 

 boat was made and used, we are ex- 

 clusively reduced to the boat itself, no 

 other antiquities which might possibly 

 have given easier means for fixing the 

 date having been found in connection 

 with it, nor even in the same moss. We have then to compare 

 our fragments with the other boats and ships, known from pre- 



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