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
Reading edition
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.
P. B. DU CHAILLU.
New York, September, 1889.
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