40 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
Ås an irregular variation of this series I record here the brooch 
fig. 47,5) though its foot has been much changed to obtain å more 
realistic appearance of the animal-head. The head itself is very 
remarkable as the intention of the workman evidently was, not to 
produce an ordinary ornamental head in the style of the time, but 
to form å horse's head as natural as he was able to do. Part of 
the foot has also been curved to imitate the line of å horse's neck. 
I take the opportunity to note, that it may be allowed to con- 
elude from this brooch that the ornamental heads of these brooches 
really were regarded as 
the heads of horses;?) 
but it is not at all eer- 
tain that the heads have 
always been explained 
in that way, and at 
least it is evident that - 
in most cases the work- 
man had no intention 
to make the head re- 
semble any living ani- 
mal. 
In the next two 
series the animal-head, 
instead of taking the 
whole length of the 
foot, is confined to being 
a terminal ornament, 
nearly always separated 
en from the rest of. the 
Fig: 47. 141. foot by a moulded rib- 
bon. *Naturally, the 
dimensions and the form of the head are here different from those 
treated above, but as the variations of the ornamental form of the 
head have little influence upon the typological development of the 
brooehes, they will here, as before, not be the special subject of 
1) Røsø, Steigen pgd. Nordland, Tromsø Mus. 1197. Ab. 1897, p. 2, fig. 1. 
2) They have been explained in the same manner by some modern archaeo- 
logists, so lately by Mr. SCHIRMER. Ab. 1905. 
