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The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time (1883)

Hildebrand, Hans, 1842-1913 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman & Hall · leaf 58

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Fig. -Bronze cylinders belonging to a collar. Gotland. placing the remains of the dead man on board a ship is morethan once mentioned. It is possible that we here see tracesof the widely spread idea that the dead was to travel over thesea to the distant and unknown land of souls. In this tomb at…

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