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Haakon Schetelig. 



[No. 8 



As an irregular variation of this series I record here the brooch 

 Hg. 47, r ) though its foot has been muen changed to obtain a more 

 realistic appearance of the animal-head. The head itself is very 

 remarkable as the intention of the workman evidently was, not to 

 produce an ordinary ornamental head in the style of the time, but 

 to form a horse's head as natural as he was able to do. Part of 

 the foot has also been curved to imitate the line of a horse's oeck. 

 I take the opportuhity to note, that it may be allowed to con- 

 clude from this brooch that the ornamental heads of these brooches 



really were regarded as 

 the heads of horses;-) 

 but it is not at all cer- 

 tain that the heads have 

 always been explained 

 in that way, and at 

 least it is evident that 

 in most cases the work- 

 man had no intention 

 to make the head re- 

 semble any living ani- 

 mal. 



In the next two 

 series the animal-head, 

 instead of taking the 

 whole length of the 

 foot, is confined to being- 

 a terminal ornament, 

 nearly always separated 

 from the rest of the 

 foot by a moulded rib- 

 bon. Naturally, the 

 dimensions and the form of the head are here different from those 

 treated above, but as the variations of the ornamental form of the 

 head have little influence upon the typological development of the 

 brooches, they will here, as before, not be the special subject of 



x ) Eøsø, Steigen pgd. Nordland, Tromsø Mus. 1197. Ab. 1897, p. 2, fig. 1. 

 ) They have been explained in the same manner by some modem avchaeo- 

 logists, so lately by Mr. Schirmer. Ab. 1905. 



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