Another near the shore of the Baltic, in Eista parish, Götland, is 50 feet by 16 feet. A third, on the island of Faró, near Götland, is 50 feet by 8 feet.
We see by this that their breadth does not always bear the same proportion to their length.
In two ship forms at Hjortehammar, in Blekinge, there were found burned bones, ashes, two of the bowl-shaped fibulæ of bronze so common during the later iron age, a round fibula of silver, some glass beads, &c.
In one at Raftötangen, in Tanum parish, was an urn filled with ashes, on the top of which lay a finely ornamented damascened sword of the later iron age.
[189]. Such expressions occur as “i haug lagdr,” mound laid; “heygdr,” mounded.
[190]. There seem to have been special places built for the burning of the dead. On the island of Fyen, not far from Broholm, and about 1,200 yards from the numerous graves, are two sites of pyres, round in shape, about 120 yards distant from each other. The pavement, about 7 inches in thickness, is made of cobble stones of the size of a man’s fist set very close together, and broken into sharp angles. The stones, especially those in the middle, have been exposed to the action of fire, but have been preserved by being covered with earth that had gathered over them brought by wind and rain in the course of centuries.
[191]. Nabjargir.
[192]. In Sigrdrifumál the texts have in stanza 34 laug = bath, and haug = mound. The letters h and l being very like in the manuscripts, we can choose whichever we like best of the two.
[193]. Cf. also Egil’s Saga, c. 61.
[194]. In Brynhild’s ride to Hel we have a different account:—