Ax interesting communication hex been made to the Academic des Inscriptions et Belles Lettien" by M. Gabnel Gustafson, cerater of the Christiania Museum, concerning the recent discovery in Norway of n Viking fun cal ship at least 1,100 years old. Its mortuary chamber contained the bones of two women who, judging from the size of the Jeraft and the elaborateness of its appointments, evidently belonged to rome noble and wealthy family.
The vessel, which is seventy feet long jand sixteen feet six inches broad, was dog out of a tumulos, two and " half miles from the shore, on the farm of Oscherg, near Tonsberg. The treasure was not intact. At some remote period, probably hundreds of yourn ayo, it had been unearthed by unscrupulous visitors, who had pillaged the mottu of many of the curious reli {ly deposited there in accordance with ancient Norse tradition.
But in other parts of the ship, which had apparently escaped the notice of the sacrilegious intruder, wa~ found a large {and extremely valuable collection of hive toric remains, including a four-wheeled chariot, richly and quaintly decorated, four sledges, three of them citrionaly carved, several bests, lintel ning wheels, and a variety of kitchen titensils. Diligent examination of these has led to the conclusion that the faneral ship belongs to the 9th century. Ove theory is that the second woman w slave condemned to accompany er mistress in her last sleep, Many of the ornaments, mostly of careed wond, arenniqne, The ship and its strange cargo, constituting one of the most important archaeological "finds" ever mate in Scandinavia, after being carefully restored, will be placed in the
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