. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 534 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. liorii and not worth carrying home; but she decided to the contrary and carried it ^vitll lier, with no idea of what it really was. Arrived at home, she washed it and concluded it to be of tin or copper, still of no value. Theie were certain rings upon it which she gave the children to play with. After some days she went to the market town and took with her one of these rings to be exam- ined, when it wa
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 534 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. liorii and not worth carrying home; but she decided to the contrary and carried it ^vitll lier, with no idea of what it really was. Arrived at home, she washed it and concluded it to be of tin or copper, still of no value. Theie were certain rings upon it which she gave the children to play with. After some days she went to the market town and took with her one of these rings to be exam- ined, when it was discovered that the ring- was not only gold, but un- usually flue gold. The King of Dennnirk, Cbristian lA', was then at Gluckstadt with his son, Prince 'i Christian. The golden horn was g brought to him, he made recom- *^. pense to tlie girl, and presented J I the horn to his son, the prince. J S He had at fli st the idea to have the ; ':: piece melted and made into a new- ? 2 fashioned, cup, but better counsels ; a prevailed, and a goldsmith was \ % employed to clean and put it in ; I good shape, which he did. It had : ^^- neither cork nor mouthpiece, so no ; i one was able to say whether it had : _-, been used as a music or a drinking ; ^ horn. The gold worker settled the ? I question for the moment by pre- 1 ^ paring a cork with gold trimmings, \ 3 and the horn was ever afterwards ; ^ used as a drinking cup on state oc- I X casions. Its capacity was 5 pints. ' I About one hundred years there- ^ after, April 21, 1734, a poor peas- £ ant named Lassen, or Laritzen, of bt ' S the same village of Gallehuus, was digging for clay in the field about 25 paces from his cabin, when his pick struck an object which shone with great splendor. On digging it out it was found to be the gold horn indicated (fig. 175). Almost a hundred years had passed siiice Kristine Svensdatter had stubbed her toe against the first one and, naturally, there was difticulty in identify- ing the exact spot,
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