112 



Haakon Schetelig. 



[N'o. 8 



to England — . is not yet confirmed by evident proofs. In ad- 

 dition to dr. Hildebeand I have in the. previous pages tried to 

 make out that the English development was at a certain point of 

 time in contact with the special West-Norwegian varieties from 

 which was derived a detail in the building of the foot, observed in 

 nearly all the late brooches of England. But certainly the English 

 development was not only of longer duration than it was in other 

 countries, it was in a high degree independant of and so different 

 from that in Scandinavia, that one feels inelined to divide all the 



cruciform brooches into two branches, the 

 one comprising all the Scandinavian forms, 

 the other the English forms. 



Connexions between them are, how- 

 ever, not wanting as it is pointed ont in 

 the preceding description, and it is very 

 illustrative of the intercourse between 

 Denmark and Norway on the one side 

 and the Anglo-Saxons on the other during 

 the Migration-Period that the Anglo- 

 Saxon forms were at first derived from 

 the Danish forms, and that later differences 

 seem to be not so much due to the ab- 

 sence of contact with the Scandinavian 

 countries — influences from Norway being 

 observed from the end of the 5th cent. and 

 from the first half of the 6th cent. — as to 

 the gradual divergence of taste and style 

 on the opposite sides of the German Ocean. 

 Before finishing the description of the 

 English forms, I briefly note the appear- 

 ance of the flat triangular termination of 

 the foot also in England, 1 ) which con- 

 firms the above pronounced conclusions about the origin of this 

 form, as the supposed model of it (fig. 112) is especially numer- 

 ous here. 



Fig. 133. 



J ) See Neville pl. 9, no. 122. Other instances are a brooch from Sleaford 

 in The British Museum, and one from Fairford in The Ashmolean Museum, 

 Oxford. 



