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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I

FIGS. PAGE

 1. Showing the plain, almost flat, shield 2

 2. Showing the strongly convex and probably segmented shield 2

 3. Remains of a wooden shield 3

 4. Saxon spear and lance heads 4

 5. Anglo-Saxon bow and arrow 5

 6. Anglo-Saxon arrow-head 5

 7. Anglo-Saxon arrow-head 5

 8. Saxon slinger 6

 9. (a) Modern Cingalese dagger; (b) Saxon seax 6

10. Normans divesting Saxon dead of their hauberks of mail 7

11. Framework of a helmet: Anglo-Saxon, IXth-XIth centuries 8

12. Ælfric's Paraphrase of the Pentateuch 9

13. The Sword called that of "St. Stephen," preserved in the treasury
of the cathedral of Prague
11

14. Swords from the episode of the battle of the three kings against the
cities of the plain
12

15. (a) Sword found in the Thames, London; (b) Sword found in the river
Witham
; (c) Sword found in the Thames, Westminster Reach;
(d) Sword found in the Thames, Wandsworth Reach 13

16. King Cnut 14

17. Sword, XIth century 15

18. Sword, Xth or XIth century 15

19. Sword, XIth century 15

19A. General proportions of the sword shown in Fig. 19 16

20. Sword found in the river Lee at Enfield, late Xth century 16

21. Sword overlaid with panels of engraved silver 17

22. Reconstructed sword with horn grip in position 18

23. Sword, VIIIth or IXth century 18

24. The suggested development of the lobated pommel 19

25. The latest development of the lobated pommel 20

26. Thegnic sword found near Dublin 21