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SCANDINAVIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Part II.

Such, for instance, were the three mounds said to cover the remains of Woden, Thor, and Fi-eya, which were worshipped at Gamla Upsala, down to the conversion of the country in the lltli century. The probability seems to be that they are the lineal descendants of iU iO 60 80 ft. 555, Section ami Gioiui(l-plaii ot Kouiid Churcli, J lioiSHger. (From Marryat's "Jutland and the Danish Isles.") those circles of stones — half tomb, half temple — which are known as spread over this country from Stonehenge to Stennis, and which are equally common throughout the Scandinavian province. It probably also was the case that the circidar form of church was much more common in Northern Europe in the early centuries of the