[174]. More than forty different statuettes have been found.
[175]. Among the bones outside the urn were found various fragments of bronze, six clinch-nails of iron, remains of glass, a burnt oblong loaf of bread, two pieces of a head ornament of bronze with rivets of iron, a ring of bronze, twelve beads of glass of different size and appearance, a damaged hanging ornament of bronze, a square plate of bronze with iron rivets, a denarius of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius coined in A.D. 162.
[176]. The word amber occurs in three earlier poems. Magical runes were written on gler.—Sigrdrifumal. Pliny in his ‘Natural History,’ Book xxxv. 3, 42, speaks of amber as being “formed in the islands of the Northern Ocean.”
[177]. For other objects in Bavenhöi find, see p. [252]–254.
[178]. For other objects found at Varpelev, see p. [256]–258.
[179]. Cf. also Flateyjarbók, i. 401; Hrólf Kraki, c. 44; Heidarviga Saga, c. 20; Eyrbyggja Saga, c. 13.
[180]. Cf. also Finnboga Saga, c. 23; Gunnlaug Ormstunga’s Saga, c. 5.
[181]. Grimhild had asked her sons Gunnar and Högni to pay weregild to Gudrún because they had slain her husband, Sigurd Fafnisbani.
[182]. This shows that bows of yew as well as of elm were used.
[183]. Another stone in relief has been found by Prof. Save, nearly 12 feet high, at Larbrö, in the northern part of the island of Gotland; of the same horse-shoe shape as shown here and on p. [58], with representations of ships, horses, and the eight-footed horse Sleipnir.