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 and Sentiments. 203 remained in private hands, and have more recently pafled into the rich mufeum of the late lord Londelborough. We give here two groups of thefe curious chefT-men, taken from the coUeftlon of lord Londefborough, and from thofe in the Britilh Mufeum as engraved in the volume of the ^/•fAt-eo/o^ia juft referred to. The firft group, forming our cut No. 140, 40. Icelandic Chejf-men of the Tiuclfth Century. confifts of a king (1), from the colle6tion of lord Londelborough, and a queen (2), bilhop (3), and knight (4), all from the Archceolog'ia ; and the fecond group (No. 141) prefents us with the warriors on foot, to which the Icelanders gave the name of hrokr, and to which sir Frederic Madden gives the Englifh name of warders, one of them (5) from lord Londelborough's colle6lion, the other (6) from the Britilh Mufeum. The reft are pawns, all from the latter colle6tion ; they are generally plain and oftagonal, as in the group to the right (7), but were Ibmetimes ornamented, as in the cafe of the other example (8). It will be feen at once that in name and charafter thefe cheff-men are nearly identical with thofe in common ufe, although in coftume they are purely Scandinavian. The king tits in the pofition, with his luord acrofs his knee, and his hand ready to draw it, which is defcribed as cha- ra6teriftic of royalty in the old northern poetry. The queen holds in her hand