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 lO Hijlory of Domefiic Manners different form. The example, cut No. ii, taken from a grave at Selzen, is the only inftance I know of a knife of this early period of Saxon his- tory with the handle preferred ; it has been beautifully enamelled. This may be taken as the type of the primitive Anglo-Saxon knife. Having given thefe few examples of the general forms of the imple- ments in ufe among the Saxons before their converfion to Chriftianity, as No. 9. Anglo-Saxon Bucket. No. 10. Anglo-Saxon Axes. much to illatirate their manners as defcribed by Beowulf, as to fliow what claffes of types were originally Saxon, we will proceed to treat of their domeftic manners as we learn them from the more numerous and No, II, Germano-Saxon Knife. more definite documents of a later period. We Ihall find it convenient to confider the fubjeft feparately as it regards in-door life and out-door life, and it will be proper firfi: that we Ihould form fome definite notion of an Anglo-Saxon houfe. We can already form fome notion of the primeval Saxon manfion from our brief review of the poem of Beowulf; and we fliall find that it continued