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Haakon Schetelig-. 



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that they have always preserved distinct typological rudiments of 

 the facetted stem. 



Concfuding from the facts referred to here, I think the appea- 

 rance of this variety in Western Norway most likely explained, if 

 we suppose that it has here in a relatively late time been imitated 

 from Danish brooches, and I do not think it an important objection 

 against this supposition, that the variety is known from Denmark 

 by one specimen only, which has not even exactly the same form 

 as those from Norway. As already observed, the 

 Danish material is very scarce and evidently gives 

 no complete impression of the richness of varieties 

 which have really existed in the country. More- 

 over, from the material nov known it seems cer- 

 tain that the cruciform brooches preserved in Jut- 

 land their original character much better than in 

 Western Norway, which is in itself an acceptable 

 reason why they should be imitated here, and 

 which also explains why the imitations show 

 a less advanced transformation of the type than 

 the contemporary brooches of the native develop- 

 ment. 1 ) 



I think it also worth notice, that this variety 

 of the foot as well as the characteristic form of 

 the animal-head connected with it, is found only 

 within the present diocese of Bergen, in the di- 

 stricts of Voss, Sogn and Søndfjord. But the 

 cruciform brooches in Western Norway are known 

 in so gr eat nurnbers, that this circumstance is not 

 well explained by supposing an accidental lack 

 in our knowledge, and the form must consequently 

 Fio . 85 ]/ _ be regarded as a local appearance, conflned to 

 these fjord-districts, which is also more natural 

 if we suppose the form produced by influences from another country, 

 than it would be, if the form in question exclusively belonged to 

 the native development. Examples are not wanting, how in historie 

 times accidental and personal connexions may have occasioned in 

 one place a strong influence of the industry of one place in another 



] ) To the study of this variety, compare the remarkable brooch, Kygh 

 fig. 250, fig. 114 below. This brooch is found in Sogn. 



