1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



113 



As a supplement to what was said about occassional influences 

 from Norway upon the brooches in England, I mention here a 

 Norwegian find of great interest. The brooch fig. 134 ') was found 

 together with two other brooches of which the one, only a frag- 

 ment of which is preserved, shows the late typical form of the 

 bow as figs. 91 and 92; the other is of a narrower shape but cer- 

 tainly also of Norwegian origin and contemporary with the first 

 mentioned. The brooch illustrated here is of quite a different cha- 

 racter, all parts of it being distinct from the other varieties found 

 in Norway, and on the other hand being most closely allied to the 

 common forms of England. Thus the head-plate is unusually large, 

 the side-wings of it are 

 bent a little downwards, 

 producing a corresponding 

 cavity of the underside, 

 and the side-knobs are 

 fixed upon the axis of the 

 spring-coil; the bow is 

 longer and less raised than 

 in Norwegian brooches 

 and the foot with the short 

 facetted stem and the small 

 scrolls at the nose of the 

 animal-head is also shaped 

 absolutely in the manner 

 characteristic of the middle 

 English varieties. The 

 differences from the normal 

 forms of Norway are so 

 great and the accordance 



with English brooches is so complete, that this brooch must have 

 been made in England and accidentally imported to Western Nor- 

 way, as a Norwegian workman, even when copying an English 

 model, would not have failed to introduce some features peculiar 

 to the brooches current in his own country, and moreover, if such 

 imitations of English brooches had actually tåken place, we should 

 expect to find more traces of them than this unique specimen. But 



Fig-. 134. 



i) Maage, Ullensvang pgtf. Hardanger. B. 5733. B. M. Aarb. 1903, no. 3, 

 p. 10 (1902: 55). 



