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Haakon Schetelig-. 



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seen it in no English and only in one Danish specimen. 1 ) It is, 

 however, most marked in the late forms from Western Norway. 

 Where a similar form of the bow appears in the large brooches 

 with relief ornaments from a later part of the migration period, I 

 think it transferred here from the cruciform brooches, a circumstance 

 not without interest as it probably proves that such large brooches 

 have been made within the Peninsula. 



A rarer variety of the bow has been 

 shown already in fig. 41 above, having a 

 rhomboidal figure drawn with four lines upon 

 the surface of the bow. This form is found 

 only in the cruciform brooches and only 

 in Norway and Sweden. It is often com- 

 bined with the form of the bow just men- 

 tioned (as in fig. 45), though it is not 

 necessarily connected with it. I am not 

 able to make out the origin and gradual 

 transformation of it, because it is rather 

 rare in the early stages of the develop- 

 ment. 



The third variety — of which we 

 have a specimen in fig. 46 — does not, 

 in my opinion, originally belong to the 

 cruciform brooches. This kind of mould- 

 ing of the bow, being regularly found in 

 the large, silver-plated brooches 2 ), which 

 are contemporary with the middle cruci- 

 form brooches, and being certainly a fea- 

 ture properly belonging to that form, must 

 from here have been transferred to some 

 cruciform brooches. It is sometimes com- 

 bined with the two previously treated 

 varieties. In Norway it is not very rare, 

 in Denmark I have seen it only in a few instances, and it seems 

 to be unknown in England. 



Fig. 72. 



x ) The Danish specimen is found in Jutlancl (Copenhagen Museum), it is 

 of silver and provided with ornaments east in relief. A fragment of a hrooch 

 in the Copenhagen Museum (nr. 8414) showing a marked development of this- 

 form of the bow, has probably come from Norway. 



2 ) Compare Muller: Jernalderen, fig. 264 and fig. 148 below. 



