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agtenfra ben og hud med glinsende fjædre, som efter
velvillig undersøgelse af hr. professor L. Esmark
have tilhørt en paafugl.
Vi komme dernæst til den del af skibet, som in-
deholdt gravkammeret. Hvorledes dette i sin helhed
var indrettet eller overbygget, skal senere omtales. Her
maa til større forstaaelse af det følgende nævnes den til-
stand, som viste sig ved fremkomsten (jfr. pl. HI fig. 2).
Skibets kjøl var bøjet opad og derved brækket, en stor
- del af bagbordside og. bunden gjennemhugget, den ene.
snip af mastefisken afskaaret, flere af tagsperrerne paa
bagbordside borttagne, mønsaasen brækket i den ene
ende og nedfalden, saa den hvilede paa mastefisken, en
delig som følge deraf de øvrige sperrer sprængte fra
hverandre, saa at det overliggende jordlag var trykket
ned og havde fyldt kammeret i højde med skibets over-
kant, hvor det mødtes af blaaleret, som havde skudt sig
op fra bunden. I jordlaget fandtes intet, derimod i blaa-
leret for det første paa bagbordside af mastefisken føl-
gende:
7 spredtliggende ben af en mand, hvorom kan hen-
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vises til anhanget;
b. en klump sammenfiltret uldtøj med graasort farve,
formodentlig af mandens dragt;
ce. 2 afbrækkede træstykker af ek (pl. VI fig. 6, VII
fig. 17) og 3 pinde af naaletræ med hoved, om-
trent lige store og væsentlig med samme form, dog
har den ene (pl. VIII fig. 8), som det vil sees, et
indskaaret hak lidt ovenfor spidsen ;
d. et stykke af et brat af ek (pl. VI fig. 11), udskaa-
ret, som det synes, i form af et dyrehoved, noget
ligt pl. VI fig. 2 a;
e. et stykke af en seng af ek (pl. VII fig. 1) med
samme slags arbeide og hovedform som de oven-
nævnte (s. 42, jfr. pl. VII fig. 2), men forskjellig fra
disse derved, at sidefjælen foruden aflang firkantede
aabninger i nederdelen længer oppe har en rad runde
huller;
f. et tyndt bræt af ek (pl. VIII fig. 1) med fine nag-
lehuller i enderne og forskjellige udskjæringer paa
hver side, udentvil en del af et brætspil, som var
indfattet i en ophøjet ramme og har kunnet bruges
til to slags spil, eftersom den ene (a) eller den an-
den side (b) vendtes op;
g. en drejet spillebrikke af sort horn (pl. IX fig. 6),
the second and third frame from the stern a quan-
tity of bones and skin with shining feathers, decla-
red, by Mr. L. Esmark, our professor of zoology,
to have belonged to a peacock.
We come next to that part of the ship which
contained the sepulchral chamber. The fashion after
which this, upon the whole, was arranged or roofed, will
hereafter be mentioned; here, to enable a fuller under-
standing of what will follow, its condition at the time
of discovery, shall be dealt with (conf. pl. III. fig. DÅ
The vessel’s keel was bent upwards and had by that
means been broken, a large portion of the ship’s larboard-
side and its bottom had been cut through, one tip of
the mast-partner cut away, several of the rafters on the
portside removed, the ridgepole broken at one end, had
fallen down so as to rest on the mastpartner, and lastly
as a consequence of all this, the rest of the rafters
had sprung from each other, so that the superincum-
bant layer of earth had sunk downwards, and filled the
chamber up to the level of the upper edges of the ves-
sel, where it was met by the blue clay thrust up from
the substratum In the earth-layer there was not any-
thing found, but in the blue clay, in the first place, on
the portside of the mastpartner the following articles: —
a. interspersed bones of a male person respecting which
reference may be had to the appendix ;
b. a bundle of entangled woollen cloth of a dark
grey colour, probably part of the man’s dress;
c. two broken pieces of oak wood (pl. VI. fig. 6,
pl. VII fig. 17) and three pins of fir or pine, each
with a head, of about like size and essentially iden-
tical form, but one whereof as shown (pl. VIII. fig. 8)
with a notch cut in, a little higher up than the point;
d. a fragment of a tray of oak (pl. VI. fig. 11) cut,
as it would seem, into the shape of an animal’s head,
somewhat like pl. VI. fig. 2 a;
e. a fragment of an oaken bedstead (pl. VII. fig. 1)
of similar form and workmanship to those previously
described (pag. 42, cfr. pl. VII, fig. 2) but different
inasmuch as the sideboard has, in addition to the
oblong square holes in the lower parts, a series
of round holes higher up,
f. a thin disc of oak (pl. VHI. fig. 1) having fine
nailholes at its ends and different engravings on
each side, without doubt part of a board inclosed
within a raised frame and intended for draugths. It
might indeed have been used for two kinds of
game, as the one face (a) or the other (b) was
placed uppermost;
a turned playing piece (pl. IX. fig. 6) made of
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