FIGURES INSÉRÉES DANS LE TEXTE. Hache, lame de silex et ciseau appartenant à la se- conde époque de l'âge de pierre... Instruments de l'ancien àge de pierre du Dane- mark... 373, 388, 392. Objets en os et en corne de cerf de l'âge de pierre 396, 404-408. Représentations de personnages et de scènes de la 2-41. 56-91. Les plus anciens monnaies du Danemark. 129-132, 139–140. ORDRE DES PLANCHES ET RENVOIS AU TEXTE. Pl. I. Un pavillon scandinave du temps de l'union des Pl. II-III. Initiale et frontispice du Meklenburgisches Reim- Pages M. le membre de la Société, E. BEAUVOIS, Cheralier de plusieurs SOCIÉTÉ ROYALE DES ANTIQUAIRES DU NORD A COPENHAGUE, LE 31 DÉCEMBRE 1889. PRÉSIDENT DE LA SOCIÉTÉ: SA MAJESTÉ CHRISTIAN IX, ROI DE DANEMARK. VICE-PRÉSIDENT: E. Vedel, Préfet, Chambellan de S. M. SECRÉTAIRE DE LA SECTION DES MANUSCRITS: K. Gislason, anc. Professeur à l'université. SECRÉTAIRE DE LA SECTION DES ANTIQUITÉS: Sophus Müller, Conservateur du Musée Roy. des Antiquités du Nord. TRÉSORIER: S. Linnemann, Conseiller d'État intime, Directeur de la Banque nationale. SECTION DES MANUSCRITS: K. Gislason, anc. Professeur à l'université (Chef de la section). V. L. Finsen, anc. Conseiller à la cour suprême. P. E. Kr. Kålund, Bibliothécaire. A. F. Krieger, Conseiller d'État intime. G. Stephens, Professeur à l'université. V. Thomsen, Professeur à l'université. SECTION DES ANTIQUITÉS: Sophus Müller, Conservateur du Musée Roy. des Antiquités du Nord (Chef de la section). Kr. Bahnson, Attaché aux Musées Roy. Kr. Erslev, Professeur à l'université. T. Hindenburg, Conseiller à la cour de justice. A. D. Jørgensen, Directeur des Archives du Royaume. J. Kornerup, Professeur. Henry Petersen, Conservateur des monuments antiques du Royaume. PROF. S. BUGGE'S STUDIES ON NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY. By Prof. Dr. GEORGE STEPHENS, F. S. A. RIDER. (July-November 1882). At p. 380 I was able to break new ground, quite apart from my arguments generally, by the sudden discovery of a striking personage in the Northern God-lore LOKÉ the bane of Baldor CUT IN STONE in the 7th age or soon thereafter, in a Scandinavian colony; the tale therefore existing centuries further back in the homeland whence the settlers came. Since then additional finds have been made of a like kind, STONES carved with episodes from the olden Northern god-lore. This opens out a new field of research, and will lead to important results in various directions. I give the chief of these fresh FACTS, in the order they have reacht me. BRIGHAM, CUMBERLAND, ENGLAND. At pp. 211-215 of Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Ant. and Archæol. Soc.", Vol. 6, the English oldlorist the Rev. W. S. Calverley, of Dearham, following my hints in my paper on the Brough stone, has given »Illustrations of Teutonic Mythology from early Christian Monuments at Brigham and Dearham." He first handles a fragment (the head) of a Cross, now placed over the Brigham vicarage porch, which he thus describes (p. 212): » Of red sandstone, and measures one foot nine inches Mém. d. antiqu. du Nord. 1884. 1 across the arms, and one foot five inches from the top to the fracture at the waist of the figure. It is sculptured on both sides and at the ends. The front shews the head and body of a man having long wavy hair, and grasping with his right hand a serpent, whose body is coiled around his waist, and twisted into the usual knot in the opposite arm of the cross; above this knot the left hand of the figure is raised with open palm in an attitude of victory. On the reverse seven small bosses, within a circle, a head and two patterns of knot work. On the ends of the arms knots." In my opinion, Mr. Calverley is quite right in identifying the above figure, (here Heliotyped by Pacht from his sketch No. I), as CHRIST THE CONQUEROR OF THE DEVIL, whose representative here is the usual olden art-symbol of the Serpent. But it is employed independently, in a way I do not remember to have seen before, owing doubtless to reminiscences of the Scandinavian Midgarth-worm or Worldsnake, the great Leviathan of the North, the dreadful son of the evil LOKE, and the fury Angurboda. And, with a touch of Classical tradition, it also reminds us of the Infant Hercules 1). 1) See the remarks of K. Simrock (Handb. d. Deutschen Mythologie, ed. 3, Bonn 1869, p. 245) on Thor at Brigham Thor-Christ as Hercules. |