Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . round the grave. In tombs supposed to belong to theAlemannic tribes, this antiquarian discovered similar re-mains. At Selzen, on the Rhine, Lindenschmidt found a Tacitus. Chap. 27. io6 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. horses skull in the resting-place of a primitive warrior(fig. 6). In the vicinity of Ham-burg, graves which were sup-posed to belong to what istermed the iron period wereopened, and horses bones werefound. At Nienburg, horseand human bones were metwith, mingled together, in acairn belonging to the sameperiod.
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . round the grave. In tombs supposed to belong to theAlemannic tribes, this antiquarian discovered similar re-mains. At Selzen, on the Rhine, Lindenschmidt found a Tacitus. Chap. 27. io6 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. horses skull in the resting-place of a primitive warrior(fig. 6). In the vicinity of Ham-burg, graves which were sup-posed to belong to what istermed the iron period wereopened, and horses bones werefound. At Nienburg, horseand human bones were metwith, mingled together, in acairn belonging to the sameperiod. The Slavonians sacrificedhorses on their graves; for theArabian traveller, Ibn Fozlan,was a witness to this practicein the loth cen-tury, at the fu-neral of a Rus-sian prince. TheLithuaniansand Samogi-tians did thesame; and theFinn and other Mongolian ^^ ^ races, among which may be reckoned the Tschuds,generally buried their horses with the dead. The re-mains of horses are very often found in the graves of Das Germanische Todtenlager Bei Selzeii. Plate 8. Mainz, 1848-. THE SACRIFICE OF HORSES. 107 the tribes who formerly tenanted Liefland. Marco Polo,in alluding to the custom of interring the bodies of thechiefs of the race of Ghengis Khan at a certain lofty-mountain, no matter where they may have died, adds ._ It is likewise the custom, during the progress of re-moving the bodies of these princes, for those who formthe escort to sacrifice such persons as they may chanceto meet on the road, saying to them, Depart forthe next world, and there attend upon your deceasedmaster, being impressed with the belief that all whomthey thus slay do actually become his servants in the nextlife. They do the same also with respect to horses, killingthe best of the stud, in order that he may have the use ofthem. This was in the 13th century. Tumuli containing the remains of horses and men aremet with in Central Asia and Siberia. The vast plains ofthese regions have ever been nurseries for hors
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