1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 63 
will be found in the fourth series of the description, p. 71 ss. — I have 
got at least å personal impression that in this district the primitive 
arrangement of the knobs and of the cateh-plate of the pin are oftener 
found in brooches of an advanced transformation than is the case 
in Eastern Norway. I am consequently inelined to suppose that the 
transformation of the shape of the brooches has in Western Norway 
taken place more rapidly than elsewhere. Certainly this is not the 
most important ditferenee between the two districts, but I think 
it a fact worthy of mention, as this greater disposition for varying 
the form has probably been 
the origin of the very far- RN 
going transformation of the ==—— 
later brooches in Western 1 
Norway. 
In the middle stage of 
the developmentthe Western 
brooches are found in cha- 
racteristic and fine varieties, 
well distinguished from 
- those belonging to other 
distriets. In fig. 80") there 
Is given å good specimen 
of this sort, well executed 
and of good proportions, 
in all worth being com- 
pared with the best Fast- 
ern brooches of åa corre- 
sponding development, as 
seen in fig. 55. But from 
a comparison it will soon Fig. 78. 11. 
be found that nearly all the 
details are here treated in a different manner. The ornaments 
are reduced to some slight lines following the edges of the facets 
and along the middle of the bow — in the last place now nearly 
totally effaced by use, — while the mouldings and the facets are 
evidently executed with the intention to produce alone the ornamental 
effect of the brooch. For this purpose the knobs have got åa more 
1 
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1) Stedje, Sogndal pgd. Sogn. B. 4640. AD. 1890, p. 111. — Respecting: 
the form of the animal-head seen here I refer to SALIN: Thierornamentik, p. 185. 
