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in the late brooches from Eastern Norway must consequently be 

 regarded as a speciality of that district, a proof more bow, during 

 the migration period, the Teutonic tribes in the different distriets 

 diverged from one another respecting the taste as expressed in 

 forms and ornaments. 



4. The erueiform brooches of Western Norway. 



A general knowledge of the Norwegian antiquities, as they are 

 arranged in the chief museums of the country, is already sufficient 

 to show a difference between the Eastern parts and the Western 

 parts of the country respecting the erueiform brooches. It is striking, 

 that most of the later forms are contined to the one or to the other 

 of these main distriets, and it is not difticult to make out that the 

 varieties most diverging from the original form of the type are 

 especially characteristic of the West coast of Norway. Certainly 

 these varieties have been found also sornetimes in the Eastern 

 district, and they often appear in the Northern parts of Norway 

 and Sweden, but in such cases the brooches always belong to a 

 late stage of development, and — as far as I have seen — their 

 typological origin is only to be found in the coast distriets between 

 Lister and the promontory of Stat. The signitication of Western forms, 

 as used here, consequently is not to be understood as meaning the 

 forms exclusively found in Western Norway; I intend in this way 

 to comprise the forms chiefly belonging to this part of the country 

 and probably indicating a somewhat independent transformation of 

 the type here, but also occasionally found in other parts of the 

 Peninsula. 



These coast distriets having been till the later part of the 

 Iron-Age, at least in some degree, isolated from the Eastern parts 

 of the country, it is no more surprising to meet with a separate 

 development in Western Norway than it is to observe certain 

 differences of the brooches found in Jutland from those found in 

 Norway. In what degree the Western forms are diverging from 

 the common type in Eastern Norway is seen from the following 

 description. I will not here discuss the question, whether we may 

 from these differences deduce any more general conclusions ; it must 

 be repeated only, that in my opinion these differences are not chiefly 

 due to a difference of time between the tinds in the Eastern parts 



