X. Sources and Particulars.

1-80. Denmark1.
Thunderstones (Flint Axes or other Stone
Antiquities).
1. Two ground flints were found in the barrow at Jmgers-
pris, district of Frederiksborg, 1744, of the kind that peasants
generally call thunderstones. [E. Pontoppidan, Vidensk. Selsk.
Skr. I. p. 309.]
2. The wedge-shaped stone axes are looked upon as
thunderstones. Snoldelev, district of Copenhagen. [Communi-
cated in 1910 by Mr Chr. Christensen, Sallev (D.F.S.).]
3. At Stenmagle, district of Sorb, and in neighbouring
villages, old people within living memory carefully collected
and kept flint axes which were called thunderstones and were
supposed to have fallen from the sky in thunderstorms. [Com-
municated at Stenmagle in 1908.]
4. The flint axes are here commonly called thunderbolts.
Slotsbjergby, district of Sorb. [Communicated in 1909 by
Mr Niels Skov (D.F.S.).]
5. The ancient flint wedges (i.e. axes) are called thunder-
stones ; if they are in a house the lightning does not strike it.
A few persons have also called fingerstones thunderstones.
Egeslevmagle, district of Sorb. [Communicated in 1906 by
Mr Th. Spange, teacher (D.F.S.).]
6. In the sixties I found in a farm on Hove field two flint
axes placed on the inner side of the roof opposite the chimney.

1 See map at end of book.