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1849 Excerpt: ...whole of Norway. With regard to the objects from
the iron-period the circumstances are wholly reversed. The swords
and other weapons characteristic of that period, the oval clasps
for the breast, the mosaic beads, &c., are so common in Sweden
and Norway, that traces of them are discovered in nearly every
barrow which has been examined there; on the contrary, in Denmark
(with the exception of Bornholm, which in an antiquarian point of
view is connected with Sweden) they occur but very rarely indeed,
when compared with the objects of stone and bronze. In places of
historical note for instance, as Leire and Jellinge, which we must
consider as having been tolerably well peopled in the pagan times,
swords and trinkets belonging almost exclusively to the
bronze-period alone have been exhumed; but none from the
iron-period, although numerous graves in the neighbourhood have
been opened. This can scarcely be a matter of accident, since the
Royal Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen, which during a
series of years has received accessions from different parts of the
country, and from many hundred barrows, possesses only a very few
weapons of iron, which are known to have been found in heathen
graves; while, on the other hand, it exhibits several hundred
swords and daggers of the bronze-period. If it should be objected
that the soil of Denmark may destroy objects of iron sooner than
that of Norway and Sweden, it must be observed that Wendish weapons
of iron are frequently discovered in heathen graves in Mecklenburg,
the soil of which country is similarly constituted to that of
Denmark. It must also be remarked that not only the iron weapons
but also the other antiquities of the iron-period, such as brass
brooches, beads, and ornaments of stone and glass, a...
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