1906] 



Tlie cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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of a similar transformation are sometimes seen also in Norway, for 

 instance in the brooeh fig. 31 above which is, as well in this respect 

 as in others, a rarity here, mueh 

 resembling, however, some of the 

 early speeimens from Sleswick- 

 Holstein (Mestoef: Alterthtimer 

 fig. 593, fig. 30 above). As a 

 rule the Norwegian and Swe- 

 dish speeimens have preserved 

 the foot long and relatively 

 narrow, and the animal-head is 

 shorter than seen in the early 

 forms of the Southern district. 

 The fine brooches of this series, 

 as they are represented here 

 by the figs. 53 and 54, r ) are 

 perhaps the most harmonious 

 form of the cruciform brooches 

 and certainly the form most 

 characteristie of the Eastern 

 parts of Norway. The speei- 

 mens belonging to this stage of 

 development are exceptionally 

 uniform. 



The late development of 

 the series treated here I have 

 illustrated in the following four 

 figures, 2 ) three of them repre- 

 senting exceptionally large and 

 fine brooches and consequently 

 to be regarded as an exact ex- F - i(y _ 55. i/ v 



pression of the taste of the 



time. Respecting the foot it must be observed that it is made 

 gradually broader, at the same time as the animal-head becomes 



*) Fig. 53: Vøien, Gran pgd. Hadeland. C. 2460. Eygh flg. 247. — Fig. 

 54: Eine, Vang pgd. Hedemarken. C. 15687. Lorange's collection. 



-) lig. 55: Ertseid, Søndre Undal pgd. Mandal. C. 9188. Ab. 1879, p. 

 170, pl. V, fig. 23. - - Fig. 56: Langlo, Stokke pgd. Jarlsberg. C. 5952. Ab. 

 1872, p. 103 ss. — Fig. 57: Foldvik, Brunlanes pgd. Larvik. C. 10322. Ab. 

 1880, p. 217. — Fig. 58: Bringsdal, Holme pgd. Mandal. C. 8961. Ab. 1878, 

 p. 182—183, pl. II, fig. 10. 



