Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2006, Side 68

Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2006, Side 68
Chrjstopher Callow Figure 2. Plan of thefurnished tenth-century cemetery at Ytra-Garðshorn in Svarfaðardalur, northern Iceland illustrating the unique alignment of grave 5 (that of a child aged 7-12) within the cemetery (after Eldjárn 2000,fig.67). Toys and miniature objects In other parts of medieval Scandinavia, as in other societies, there is sometimes evidence of children being buried with objects which might be identified as toys, such as at Barshalder and Birka in Sweden where rattles were identified both in child graves and in those of adult women (Rundkvist 2003: 62, 70; Grás- lund). Víga-Glúms saga, one of the Sagas of Icelanders, refers to an object called a messingahestr, some kind of bronze horse with which two boys were playing. Apparently one such object was exca- vated at Þingvellir, the foremost medieval Icelandic assembly site, but has since 66

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