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Haakon Schetelig. 



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than the heads commonly seen in the cruciform brooches, 1 ) though 

 it is known in not a few specimens from all parts of Scandinavian 

 The study of pure ornamental forms not being within the limits of 

 this paper, I have elsewhere not especially mentioned such instances; 

 .an exception is made here, because the heads seen in figs. 82 and 

 83 are of a more special interest, appearing in a characteristic and 

 constant form, confined to the small district of the present diocese 

 of Bergen - the country between Hardanger and Nordfjord — 



and found only in 

 certain varieties of 

 the late development 

 of the type. It has, 

 as clearly seen in 

 the brooch fig. 83, 

 the appearance of a 

 new element com- 

 bined with a type 

 already old; the 

 knobs, the plate, 

 the bow, and the fa- 

 cetted part of the 

 foot having lost all 

 of the organic pro- 

 portions and of the 

 original elegance of 

 the form, while the 

 broad animal-head, 

 in itself by no means 

 a harmonious termin- 

 ation of the brooch, 

 is the only part well formed and carefully executecl. That this 

 brooch really belongs to the latest stage of the development is seen 

 also from the fact that the underside is very concave. 2 ) It is 



Fig. 81. Vi- 



x ) Compare fig. 80 and Salin 1. c. I cannot in all points agree with dr. 

 Salin's opinion about the development of this head in the cruciform brooches. 

 It seems to me that the form of the head in fig. 80 here must be older than 

 fig. 84, and the variations figs. 82 and 83 the j-oungest of all of them. Dr. Salin 

 has arranged them just in the opposite order. 



2 ) For the date of such brooches compare the find illustrated in figs. 179 

 and 180 below. 



