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The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations — Paul B. Du Chaillu

The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations

Paul B. Du Chaillu

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 630 pages

The Viking Age, Volume 1, is a historical study by Paul B. Du Chaillu, published in 1889. Drawing on antiquities from mounds, cairns, and bogs, as well as ancient sagas and Eddas, it describes the early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of English-speaking nations. It offers a detailed look at Viking ships, daily life, and burial practices.

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VIKING SHIP, USED FOR BURIAL
(GOKSTAD, NORWAY).
(Length of keel, 60 feet; total length, 75
feet; broadest part, 15½ feet; depth from
the upper part of bulwark to bottom of
keel, 3½ feet.)
Judging from the number of holes seen,
which were about 18 inches below the
gunwale, it carried sixteen oars, and was
consequently a sixteen-seater. Its
preservation is due to the blue clay in
which it was partly embedded, the upper
part being eaten away owing to the clay
being mixed with sand, thus allowing the
rain and air to penetrate. It is entirely of
oak, clinker built, calked with cows’ hair
spun in a sort of cord.
THE VIKING AGE
THE EARLY HISTORY
MANNERS, AND
CUSTOMS OF THE
ANCESTORS OF THE

ENGLISH-SPEAKING

NATIONS

ILLUSTRATED FROM

THE ANTIQUITIES

DISCOVERED IN MOUNDS,

CAIRNS, AND BOGS AS WELL

AS FROM THE ANCIENT SAGAS

AND EDDAS

BY

PAUL B. DU CHAILLU

AUTHOR OF “EXPLORATIONS IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA,” “LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN,” ETC.

WITH 1366 ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP

IN TWO VOLUMES.—VLjƯ. I

NEW YORK:

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.

1889.

CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1889, œΏ

PAUL B. DU CHAILLU.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.,

Astor Place, New York.

TO

GEORGE C. TAYLOR, Esq.,

OF NEW YORK.

To you, my dear Taylor, who, like myself, have travelled over many lands, and led the same adventurous life in days gone by, I dedicate “The Viking

Age,” in remembrance of years of friendship, of the many pleasant days we have spent together, and especially of our wanderings in the Land of the

Midnight Sun, in the home of the old Vikings, while I was engaged on the present work.

P. B. DU CHAILLU.

New York, September, 1889.

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Contents

  1. THE VIKING AGE THE EARLY HISTORY MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCESTORS OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS ILLUSTRATED FROM
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS OF VOL. I
  4. A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SAGAS QUOTED IN THE VIKING AGE, INCLUDING THE PERIODS WITH WHICH THEY DEAL.
  5. A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL KINGS OF DENMARK, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN, SOME OF WHOM HAVE SAGAS OF THEIR OWN.
  6. CHAPTER I. CIVILISATION AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE NORTH.
  7. CHAPTER II. ROMAN AND GREEK ACCOUNTS OF THE NORTHMEN.
  8. CHAPTER III. THE SETTLEMENT OF BRITAIN BY NORTHMEN.
  9. CHAPTER IV. THE MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY OF THE NORSEMEN.
  10. CHAPTER V. MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY—continued.
  11. CHAPTER VI. ODIN OF THE NORTH.
  12. CHAPTER VII. THE SUCCESSORS OF ODIN OF THE NORTH.
  13. CHAPTER VIII. THE STONE AGE.
  14. CHAPTER IX. THE BRONZE AGE.
  15. CHAPTER X. THE IRON AGE.
  16. CHAPTER XI. RUNES.
  17. CHAPTER XII. NORTHERN RELICS—BOG FINDS.
  18. CHAPTER XIII. NORTHERN RELICS—GROUND FINDS.
  19. CHAPTER XIV. DESCRIPTION OF SOME REMARKABLE GRAVES AND THEIR CONTENTS.
  20. CHAPTER XV. GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE NORTH.
  21. CHAPTER XVI. GLASS.
  22. CHAPTER XVII. HORSES—WAGGONS.
  23. CHAPTER XVIII. VARIOUS FORMS OF GRAVES.
  24. CHAPTER XIX. BURIALS.
  25. CHAPTER XX. RELIGION.—WORSHIP, SACRIFICES, ETC.
  26. CHAPTER XXI. RELIGION.—ALTARS, TEMPLES, HIGH-SEAT PILLARS, ETC.
  27. CHAPTER XXII. RELIGION.—HUMAN SACRIFICES.
  28. CHAPTER XXIII. RELIGION.—IDOLS AND WORSHIP OF MEN AND ANIMALS, ETC.
  29. CHAPTER XXIV. RELIGION.—THE NORNIR AND VALKYRIAS.
  30. CHAPTER XXV. RELIGION.—THE VOLVAS.

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