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Chap. XVI.
MUSEUM: AGE OF IRON.
249
birthday drawing-rooms of Her Majesty in this the
nineteenth century.
Money in these early ages was unknown in Denmark.
The first coin struck in that country was in the reign of
Svend, father of Canute the Great, about the year 1000.
Large masses of foreign money, however, have been
discovered in various places—Cufic, Byzantine, Roman,
German, and Anglo-Saxon (Danegelt) mixed together
—with bars and ingots of silver and gold, rings
suspended to others of large dimensions, broken bracelets,
chains, and necklaces. In a small case near the window
you will see exposed the “ find ” of this description, made
in Falster, near Vaalse, some thirteen years since.
Glass, too, now appears, not of home manufacture, but
imported from other countries. Beads of this material,
both coloured and mosaic, are numerous. Four of a
large size are supposed to have formed knobs for the
handles of swords. Then we have drinking-horns,
graceful in form, both in bone and in glass—the latter
opalized by the effect of long interment. Among many
glasses of various design and colour, one specimen
arrived only a few days since, moulded in the same
diamond pattern that is used in the French cabarets at
the present day.
Of silver laid on to iron we have the remains of a
girdle, in good preservation, and javelin-heads
ornamented with silver double-circular spangle ornaments,*
shining bright from among the rusty but more useful
metal. Then come two small vases of Roman
work
* The same ornamentation is used by the inhabitants of Borneo in
the present clay to mark the number of enemies who have fallen by the
hand of the possessor. In the Ethnographic Museum I have seen spears
with twenty or thirty of these double-circular spangles of silver.
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