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Title: The University-Museum of Northern Antiquities in Christiania; a short guide for visitors
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Universitetet i Oslo. Universitetets oldsaksamling Undset, Ingvald, 1853-1893
Subjects: Scandinavia -- Antiquities
Publisher: Christiania, A. Cammermeyer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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— IcS — Arabian silver coins from about y. 900. They have come to the North from the South-East through Russia, through mercantiletransactions which in the 9th and loth century brought greatquantities of oriental silver up to the Eastern countries of theNorth. hi case 42, close to the entrance, lie the metallic objectsfound in the wooden sepulchral chamber in the Viking shipfrom Gokstad. As may be seen at the ship (kept in a sepa-rate wooden shed in the garden at the back of the university),tnis grave has been robbed already in the olden time. Thereforeno weapons or other valuable objects of metal were found, onlythe fragments of small things here exhibited, which were scatteredin the earth inside the chamber. They are mostly mountingson strappings, of lead and gilt bronze; of the latter, special noticeshould be taken af some pieces marked with animal and equestrianfigures (fig. 27), Case 45 contains several discoveries from female graves,chiefly consisting of ornaments, mostly bea

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