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water stood high, but liad to remain when the water decreased. »It is
still in tlie Upsala museum in the care of Professor Doctor Roberg, and
serves as a monument to the universal fiood and the overflowing of the
great ocean over Europé».
From a letter from Dr. Johan Moraeus (subsequeiitlv the
father-in-law of Linnaeus) to Eric Benzelius (Swedenborg’s brother-i 11-law), dated
Brunsbo, (the episeopal residence near Skara). Xov. 21, 1705, which letter
is referred to by Lilljeborg, it appears that the find was made shortlv
before, for at that time all of the bones were not yet dug up.
Åccord-ing to Carl Aurivillius1, the place where the find was made lies about
152 kilometers from the coast and 100 meters above the sea2. Moraeus
savs in his letter that the bones would be taken to the Skara cathedral.
Whether this occurred is uncertain.
In any event it appears that it was due to Sweoenborg that the
hones were taken to Upsala, for in a letter301 from him to Benzelius,
dated Brunsbo, March (J, 1710, we read: »Four or fivc weeks ago the
bones of a giant were sent from liere; I suppose they have arri ved,
wliicli I also desire, because I alluded to tliem in some verses, which
Magister Unge will perhaps introduce into his dissertation; tliey are as foliows:
Smit Gothia nuper spatiösa meinbra giguntis
Aveda, ast eerebro, ast ingeniogne careiit.
Fertilis haec tellus alium nutic mittit ahunnmn.
Yirilms i ngeni i hic, corporis ilte, ralet*
For this reason 1 wisli that the bones may not be delayed on the
way; the novitiate who took them witli him seemed to be well disposed.
1 Carl Auuivillivs: Der Wal Svedenborg’s (Balaena Swedenborgii Lilljeborg) muh
einem Funde im Diluvium Schwedens beurtlieilt. K. Svenska Vetensk. Akad.
Handlingar Bd. 23, No. 1. Stockholm, 1888.
- Cf. H. Ml.vthe’s more complete aecount in the contribution »Um faunan i
Yest-götaslättens yoldialera . Geol. Foren. Forhandl. 23 (1901): 120, from which it is clear
that the height, determined more exactly, is 97 m. The place where the tind was made
is also mentioned and illnstrated by the same autlior in the description for the chart
»Falköping». S. (i. U., Ser. Aa, No. 120, 190G.
:1 In a free translation, as given in R. L. Tafel s »Doeuments coftcerning
Sweden-borg , London, 1875—1877:
From Gothia came a giant’s bnlky frame;
But brains and quickening intellect it lacked.
This fertile land a new alumnus sends;
In mind gigantic this, as huge in body that.
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