THE RUNIC TOMB-STONES AT JELLINGE IN JUTLAND. 33 chamber where the hoards lie length-ways, is divided exactly in the middle, by means of an oaken plank raised on its edge. Thus it seems that the grave chamber was destined to receive two coffins, which were to be placed the one beside the other. It was manifest that the chamber had been opened at some earlier period. There was, how- ever found a chest resembling a round trunk almost entirely consumed by rottenness; this was supposed to have been an outer coffin, and nothing was found in it. Further there was found a silver beaker, two inches high, lined with gold on the inner side, and on the outer side decorated with dragon coils inlaid with gold; two figures of birds made of copper, covered with thin plates of gold; two ornaments of thin copper-plates cut through, with a cross in the middle whose limbs were of equal length; the plates had been gilt on the outside; several things of wood and among these some carved objects in the same taste as the spiral ornaments on the stone of Gorm, which will be men- tioned hereafter: these wooden things are painted in black dusky brown and yellow oil colours 1. On the two cairns there formerly stood the two monu- mental stones, which we here shall consider more atten- tively, and which now, for the purpose of being more securely preserved, have been brought over to the church- yard. According to the inscription on the tomb-stone of the Queen, her cairn must under Gorm’s direction have been built during her lifetime, and the stone even placed thereon for the honour of the Queen, and as a memorial of her in time to come, since, according to historical writings, she survived her husband by some years. It is supposed that he died, aged nearly a hundred years, in the year 935, and she, aged seventy years, four years later, viz. in 939. That King Gorm, as many similar examples are to be found See Antiquariske Annaler IV 1 p. 61 sq.

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