The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations

by Paul B. Du Chaillu

Fig. 860.—Iron spear-point, found with a skeleton, double-edged sword, knife, two spear-points, and shield-boss, in a cairn at Folkeslunda, Öland. ⅓ real size.

Fig. 861.—Iron arrow-head. ½ real size, found with 11 others of the same shape.—Vestana, Upland.

Fig. 862.—Spear-point. ¼ real size.—Hade in Gestrikland, Sweden.

Fig. 863.—Ornamentation of a spear-handle, ½ real size, from Thorsbjerg bog.

Spears, like swords, had numerous poetical names. Odin’s spear was called Gungnir. Some other names were—

The pole of Darrad (Odin).

The sounding fish of the armour.