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Excerpt from Guide to Northern Archaeology by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen: Edited for the Use of English Readers Tee most perfect and enduring form in which the memora bilia of the present day can be preserved for posterity is that of written documents; the facility with which these are now prepared and multiplied in copies by the assistance of the press, makes the information they embody imperishable. In ancient times and through the middle ages, the difficulty was greater; written documents were less difl'uscd, costlier, the property rather of individuals than of the people at large, and least of all, of the bumbler classes. We may therefore assume that what has been preserved belonged to the choicer productions of its age; that it was something on which the most dist inguished and enlightened men Of its time and country placed a high value, and which must therefore assist us to the knowledge, not indeed of all the remarkable events of past ages, but still of their most important results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.