Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
a groove to keep the edge of the plate; 
none of the other varieties are repre- 
sented by such fine specimens at the 
same stage of development. These broo- 
ches (figs. 39—40), being found in Nor- 
way only, must be regarded as å Nor- 
wegian speciality, developed here from 
a very primitive form of the foot, å 
form which is seen in fig. 143 below. 
The fine specimens are richly ornamented 
with silver inlaid in the surface or with 
geometrical patterns executed with a 
punch. Their origin must probably be 
referred to the Fastern parts of the 
country, in spite of the cirecumstance 
that the best specimens have been actu- 
ally found in Romsdalen and that some 
of them are known from Western Nor- 
way; for ornaments executed with å 
punch are commonly met with in all 
Eastern varieties of the cruciform broo- 
eches but are seen. rarely in brooches 
belonging especially to the Western part 
of Norway. | 
The variety represented here as figs. 
41—42 is found most commonly in Nor- 
way, but as one specimen whose foot is 
arranged in å similar manner, is known 
from Jutland*'), I think it likely that 
both the Norwegian and the Danish 
specimens of this sort are derived from 
a common origin in the district about 
the mouth of the Elbe, though I know 
of no specimen found there. 
1) Copenhagen Museum, no. 25562. 
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