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in the late brooches from Eastern Norway must consequently be 
regarded as å speciality of that district, a proof more how, during 
the migration period, the Teutonic tribes in the different distriets 
diverged from one another respecting the taste as expressed in 
forms and ornaments. | 
4. The eruciform brooehes of Western Norway. 
Å general knowledge of the Norwegian antiquities, as they are 
arrapged in the chief museums of the country, is already sufficient 
to show a difference between the Eastern parts and the Western 
parts of the country respecting the eruciform brooches. Itis striking, 
that most of the later forms are confined to the one or to the other 
of these main districts, and it is not diffieult to make out that the 
varieties most diverging from the original form of the type are 
especially characteristic of the West coast of Norway. Certainly 
these varieties have been found also sometimes in the Eastern 
district, and they often appear in the Northern parts of Norway 
and Sweden, but in such cases the brooches always belong to å 
late stage of development, and — as far as I have seen — their 
typological origin is only to be found in the coast distriets between 
Lister and the promontory of Stat. The sienification of Western forms, 
as used here, consequently is not to be understood as meaning the 
forms exclusively found in Western Norway; I intend in this way 
to comprise the forms chiefly belonging to this part of the country 
and probably indicating åa somewhat independent transformation of 
the type here, but also occasionally found in other parts of the 
Peninsula. 
These coast distriets having been till the later part of the 
Iron-Age, at least in some degree, isolated from the Eastern parts 
of the country, it is no more surprising to meet with a separate 
development in Western Norway than it is to observe certain 
differences of the brooches found in Jutland from those found in 
Norway. In what degree the Western forms are diverging from 
the common type in Eastern Norway is seen from the following 
deseription. I will not here diseuss the question, whether we may 
from these differences deduce any more general conelusions; it must 
be repeated only, that in my opinion these differences are not ehiefly 
due to å difference of time between the finds in the Eastern parts 
