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[Illustration:

  WAGGON OF THE VIKING AGE.

  One of two waggons found in the Deibjerg bog, Ringkjobing, West
    Jutland, ornamented all over with bronze; and on each side
    representations of two human heads with heavy moustaches, and with
    the triskele and other mystic signs. Length of sides, 5 feet, 4
    inches; straight pole, about 6 feet, including the bent piece;
    diameter of wheels, 3 feet.
]




                             THE VIKING AGE

    THE EARLY HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCESTORS OF THE
                        ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS

                            ILLUSTRATED FROM
 _THE ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED IN MOUNDS, CAIRNS, AND BOGS AS WELL AS FROM
                      THE ANCIENT SAGAS AND EDDAS_


                                   BY

                           PAUL B. DU CHAILLU
  AUTHOR OF “EXPLORATIONS IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA,” “LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT
                               SUN,” ETC.


                    WITH 1366 ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP


                        IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II


                               NEW YORK:
                        CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.
                                 1889.




                          COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY
                          PAUL B. DU CHAILLU.


                      Press of J. J. Little & Co.,
                         Astor Place