PREFACE.
CONTENTS OF VOL. I
A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SAGAS QUOTED IN THE VIKING AGE, INCLUDING THE PERIODS WITH WHICH THEY DEAL.
A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL KINGS OF DENMARK, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN, SOME OF WHOM HAVE SAGAS OF THEIR OWN.
CHAPTER I. CIVILISATION AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE NORTH.
CHAPTER II. ROMAN AND GREEK ACCOUNTS OF THE NORTHMEN.
CHAPTER III. THE SETTLEMENT OF BRITAIN BY NORTHMEN.
CHAPTER IV. THE MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY OF THE NORSEMEN.
CHAPTER V. MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY continued .
CHAPTER VI. ODIN OF THE NORTH.
CHAPTER VII. THE SUCCESSORS OF ODIN OF THE NORTH.
CHAPTER VIII. THE STONE AGE.
CHAPTER IX. THE BRONZE AGE.
CHAPTER X. THE IRON AGE.
CHAPTER XI. RUNES.
CHAPTER XII. NORTHERN RELICS BOG FINDS.
CHAPTER XIII. NORTHERN RELICS GROUND FINDS.
CHAPTER XIV. DESCRIPTION OF SOME REMARKABLE GRAVES AND THEIR CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XV. GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE NORTH.
CHAPTER XVI. GLASS.
CHAPTER XVII. HORSES WAGGONS.
CHAPTER XVIII. VARIOUS FORMS OF GRAVES.
CHAPTER XIX. BURIALS.
CHAPTER XX. RELIGION. WORSHIP, SACRIFICES, ETC.
CHAPTER XXI. RELIGION. ALTARS, TEMPLES, HIGH-SEAT PILLARS, ETC.
CHAPTER XXII. RELIGION. HUMAN SACRIFICES.
CHAPTER XXIII. RELIGION. IDOLS AND WORSHIP OF MEN AND ANIMALS, ETC.
CHAPTER XXIV. RELIGION. THE NORNIR AND VALKYRIAS.
CHAPTER XXV. RELIGION. THE VOLVAS.
CHAPTER XXVI. RELIGION. AEGIR AND RAN. [319]
CHAPTER XXVII. RELIGION. SACRIFICES TO THE ALFAR, DISIR, FYLGJA, HAMINGJA, AND LANDVOETTIR.
CHAPTER XXVIII. VALHOLL-VALHALLA.
CHAPTER XXIX. SUPERSTITIONS. SHAPE-CHANGING.
CHAPTER XXX. SUPERSTITIONS. WITCHCRAFT.
CHAPTER XXXI. SUPERSTITIONS. OMENS.
CHAPTER XXXII. SUPERSTITIONS. DREAMS.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE LAND.
CHAPTER XXXV. DIVISIONS OF PEOPLE INTO CLASSES.
CHAPTER XXXVI. SLAVERY THRALDOM. [494]
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE THING.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE GODI AND THE GODISHIP.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE LAWS OF THE EARLIER ENGLISH TRIBES.
CHAPTER XL. INDEMNITY, WEREGILD.
CHAPTER XLI. THE OATH AND ORDEAL.
CHAPTER XLII. DUELLING.
CHAPTER XLIII. OUTLAWRY.
CHAPTER XLIV. REVENGE.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Transcriber's Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
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.—Vol. I
NEW YORK:
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.
1889.
Copyright, 1889, by
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.
New York, September, 1889.
