1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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lind certain varieties conflned to different localities; Denmark, Eng- 

 land, and different parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula producing 

 each their own forms which, for the most part, are not found out- 

 side their special district. 



As this development chiefly takes place during- the 5th cent., 

 we meet with very few traces of it in Northern Germany which 

 then gradually ceased 

 to be a Teutonic coun- h ^r 



try. Denmark, especi- 

 ally Jutland, has on the 

 other hand produced so 

 many original and inter- 

 esting forms of the cru- 

 ciform brooches, that I 

 do not doubt that Jut- 

 land has been one of 

 the richest districts in 

 this respect and of spe- 

 cial importance by its 

 influence upon the Eng- 

 lish forms. But on ac- 

 countof thefuneral rites 

 in Denmark at that 

 time the Danish graves 

 have contained very few 

 cruciform brooches, and 

 those accidentally found 

 elsewhere are sufflcient 

 only to present some 

 unique and remarkable 

 varieties without giving 

 an opportunity of stu- 

 dying the development 

 of forms in details. 



ln Scandinavia it 

 is only the abundant 



material from Norway which enables us to put together complete 

 series of successive forms showing the unbroken development. But 

 here too will be found a difference between the Eastern parts of 

 the Peninsula and the Western parts, a difference most marked 



Fig. 33 



11 cm. long. 



