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                               AN ACCOUNT

                                 OF THE

                          DANES AND NORWEGIANS

                                   IN

                    ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.




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                               AN ACCOUNT

                                 OF THE


                          DANES AND NORWEGIANS

                                   IN


                    ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

                BY J. J. A. WORSAAE, FOR. F.S.A. LONDON:

  A ROYAL COMMISSIONER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE NATIONAL MONUMENTS
   OF DENMARK; AUTHOR OF “PRIMÆVAL ANTIQUITIES OF DENMARK,” &C., &C.


                        WITH NUMEROUS WOODCUTS.

                                LONDON:
                     JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
                                 1852.




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                                LONDON:
                        GEORGE WOODFALL AND SON,
                      ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.




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                                PREFACE.

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Mr. Worsaae informs us in his Introduction that the following pages were
not written solely for the learned. They were designed as a popular
contribution to a branch of historical and antiquarian knowledge, which,
though highly interesting both to Scandinavians and Englishmen, has been
hitherto very imperfectly investigated. The English reader will find in