Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Identifier: annualreportofbo1891smitso (find matches)
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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556 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. laysen,' who giv^es appi'oximately tlie year 1000 b. c. as the time of their origin. Boor Emil Hildebrand^ places them in the broiize age ti^oin the form of weapons rei)resented, wliile Hohni)erg'^ credits them to the Vikings; the sculptures of that period, however, distinguish themselves in a remarkable degree from those of the bronze age, as shown in the Hiiggeby stone, in Upland, Sweden, and in theTjiingvide
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Fig. 40. Runic Stone Found at Tjangvidb, Gotland, Sweden. ( Reprodiired from Du Chaillu : Lan.l ol the MJdnight Sun.) Stone, Alskog parish, G-otland (Fig. 40); similar stones of the Yiking age occur in Hjerrniser, Jutland, Bornholm,^ etc. Viktor Kydberg-^' accepts the bronze age theory from a comparison of the shape of the ships de- ^ Mcolaijfien, JSf.: Langskibet fr:i Gokstad, Kristiania, 1882. 2 Hildchrand : Glyphs of Ostergotlaiul. ■^ Holmhcru, A. E.: Skaudiiiavieus hiillristningar, Storkholiii, 184(3. ^ Thorsen, P. a.: De Danske Riiiu'niiiKlosnKV'rkcr. Sicphois, <im.: Tho K'luiic Hall in the Danish Old Northern Mnseiiin. ^ DuUzer, L.: HohiisL'ins Hiillristningar, ISXl (introduction by Viktor Rydberg).

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