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Haakon Schetelig. 



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forms properly belonging to the Scandinavian Peninsula; thus the 

 nose of the animal-head in the said English brooches is shaped like 

 two semicircular, slightly convex whigs, a form appearing in several 

 Danish brooches and also observed in a few specimens from Nor- 

 way; but the form so common in Norway with a nose marked by 

 two hemispherical knobs (as seen for instance in the figs. 38, 57, 



Fis. 121. 



90) is never seen in the cruciform brooches from England. The 

 brooch illustrated in fig. 116 is also related to Danish forms by 

 having a longer bow than is usually the case in Norway and 

 Sweden, though it must be added that this is not such a regular 

 feature in the English as it is in the Danish brooches. Of greater 

 importance is the form of the head of the brooches, the shape of 



