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83. STOB^EUS, Opera (Dantisci, 1753), pp. 119-121, has the
names marestenar and smordubbar for the echinites, and says
that they were used as a protection against the nightmare (cf.
No. 82/) and accidents in the churning (cf. No. 71). Pp. 132
seq.: natural pierced flints are called marestenar (i.e. nightmare
stones) and are hung in the stables and round the necks of the
cattle. P. 133 : in the north of Sweden stones worn round and
oval by water pass for thunderstones and are called godbonde-
stenar. On p. 133 an incident is further related which shows
that the notion of the thunderstone was not exclusively asso-
ciated with certain particular kinds of stones : 1735 vir quidam
religiosus hie in Scania degens...mihi lapidem quendam rotun-
dum, tuberculis nonnullis muricatum, qui...et figura et magni-
tudine gallam refert,...misit, simulque litteris significavit, ilium
esse in trunco arboris a fulmine tactae a lignatoribus ipsius
repertum et sibi oblatum ; verum minus equidem mihi dubi-
tandum reor, quin servi fallaces, ut majus pretium dono suo ab
hero curioso et credulo conciliarent, mira haec comment! sint.
84. Pierced stone axe, found in the beginning of the
eighteenth century in Uppland ; on the side is a row of runes ;
both ends are knocked off (possibly by the use made of it,
mentioned in Nos. 82 d and 36) ; reproduced in Antiqv. Tids-
skrift, 1852-4, pp. 260-1 ; Montelius, Kzilturgeschichte
Schwedens, p. 67, fig. 99.
85. Pierced stone axe with carved Romanesque ornaments ;
found in West Gothland: MONTELIUS, Kulturgeschichte
Schwedens, p. 68, fig. 100.
86-8g. Norway.
86. In 1750 Fr. Arndtz, dean of Sundfjord and vicar of
Askevold, sent a small, round stone to Bishop Pontoppidan, and
wrote of it, “ The peasants say that thunder shoots down such
stones, and as their old idea is that thunder strikes the trolls
who would otherwise destroy the world, they have formed the
idea that these stones are the shot it uses.” They are found
where the ground has been torn up by lightning; the largest of
them resemble hen’s eggs in shape and size. E. Pontoppidan,
Norges naturlige Historic, I. p. 285.
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83. STOB^EUS, Opera (Dantisci, 1753), pp. 119-121, has the
names marestenar and smordubbar for the echinites, and says
that they were used as a protection against the nightmare (cf.
No. 82/) and accidents in the churning (cf. No. 71). Pp. 132
seq.: natural pierced flints are called marestenar (i.e. nightmare
stones) and are hung in the stables and round the necks of the
cattle. P. 133 : in the north of Sweden stones worn round and
oval by water pass for thunderstones and are called godbonde-
stenar. On p. 133 an incident is further related which shows
that the notion of the thunderstone was not exclusively asso-
ciated with certain particular kinds of stones : 1735 vir quidam
religiosus hie in Scania degens...mihi lapidem quendam rotun-
dum, tuberculis nonnullis muricatum, qui...et figura et magni-
tudine gallam refert,...misit, simulque litteris significavit, ilium
esse in trunco arboris a fulmine tactae a lignatoribus ipsius
repertum et sibi oblatum ; verum minus equidem mihi dubi-
tandum reor, quin servi fallaces, ut majus pretium dono suo ab
hero curioso et credulo conciliarent, mira haec comment! sint.
84. Pierced stone axe, found in the beginning of the
eighteenth century in Uppland ; on the side is a row of runes ;
both ends are knocked off (possibly by the use made of it,
mentioned in Nos. 82 d and 36) ; reproduced in Antiqv. Tids-
skrift, 1852-4, pp. 260-1 ; Montelius, Kzilturgeschichte
Schwedens, p. 67, fig. 99.
85. Pierced stone axe with carved Romanesque ornaments ;
found in West Gothland: MONTELIUS, Kulturgeschichte
Schwedens, p. 68, fig. 100.
86-8g. Norway.
86. In 1750 Fr. Arndtz, dean of Sundfjord and vicar of
Askevold, sent a small, round stone to Bishop Pontoppidan, and
wrote of it, “ The peasants say that thunder shoots down such
stones, and as their old idea is that thunder strikes the trolls
who would otherwise destroy the world, they have formed the
idea that these stones are the shot it uses.” They are found
where the ground has been torn up by lightning; the largest of
them resemble hen’s eggs in shape and size. E. Pontoppidan,
Norges naturlige Historic, I. p. 285.