Addition to pages 9, 10.
Since the foregoing sheets were printed off we have met with a passage in Olaus Wormius’s Monumenta Danorum, which seems to clear up the difficulty. This accurate writer, observes that it was the general practice with the ancient Danes to bury their dead in open plains under hillocks of earth, which they frequently also surrounded with circles of large stones: yet acknowledges that instead of stones these barrows or tumuli are sometimes found incircled with large trees, disposed with great exactness; and that these are supposed to be the sepulchres of kings.—“Interim dissimulate non possum, colles et tumulos ejusmodi etiam in planis reperiri, grandibus undique in coronam cinctos arboribus, fagis, quercubus, aliisque lapidum vices sustinentibus, studio et arte eleganter dispositis: in quibus regum humata esse cadavera credunt.”
Mon. Dan. Hafn. 1643. folio. p. 38.
FINIS.
