1906" 



The c ru ei form brooches of Norway. 



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fig. 37, figs. 108—115) to which they have an accidental likeness. 

 Moreover, such brooches as the form just referred to are unknown 

 in Western Norway 

 at this time. 



When we re- 

 member that the 

 large and characteri- 

 stic brooches, figs. 

 91 — 95, are contem- 

 porary witli the most 

 degenerated forms of 

 other varieties (com- 

 pare figs. 57 — 58 and 

 81—83) it is not 

 astonishing that they 

 could spread out- 

 side Western Nor- 

 way where they had 

 been originally de- 

 veloped. They are, 

 however, very rare 

 in the Eastern parts 

 of the Peninsula 

 whose direct com- 

 munications with the 

 West coast were at 

 that time — as far as 

 we know — carried 

 on at a rather small 

 scale. They found 

 their way northwards 

 to the Romsdal and 

 to the country around 

 the Trondhjemsfjord 

 where Eastern forms 

 had till that time 

 been predominant, if 

 we may conclude 

 from the scanty mate- 

 rial of cruciform brooches preserved here. From nere they 

 came to the Northern districts of Sweden; many of them are 



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