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that they have always preserved distinet typological rudiments of 
the facetted stem. 
Concluding from the facts referred to here, I think the appea- 
rance of this variety in Western Norway most likely explained, if 
we suppose that it has here in a relatively late time been imitated 
from Danish brooches, and I do not think it an important objection 
against this supposition, that the variety is known from Denmark 
by one specimen only, which has not even exactly the same form 
as those from Norway. Ås already observed, the 
Danish material is very scarce and evidently gives 
no complete impression of the richness of varieties 
which have really existed in the country. More- 
over, from the material now known it seems cer- 
tain that the eruciform brooches preserved in Jut- 
land their original character much better than in 
Western Norway, which is in itself an acceptable 
reason why they should be imitated here, and 
which also explains why the imitations show 
a less advanced transformation of the type than 
the contemporary brooches of the native develop- 
ment.*) 
I think it also worth notice, that this variety 
of the foot as well as the characteristic form of 
the animal-head connected with it, is found only 
within the present diocese of Bergen, in the di- 
striets of Voss, Sogn and Søndfjord. But the 
eruciform brooches in Western Norway are known 
in so great numbers, that this cireumstance is not 
well explained by supposing an aceidental lack 
in our knowledge, and the form must consequently 
be regarded as å local appearance, confined to 
these fjord-districts, which is also more natural 
if we suppose the form produced by influences from another country, 
than it would be, if the form in question exclusively belonged to 
the native development. FExamples are not wanting, how in historie 
times aceidental and personal connexions may have occeasioned in 
one place å strong influence of the industry of one place in another 
1 To the study of this variety, compare the remarkable brooch, RyoH 
fig. 250, fig. 114 below. This brooch is found in Sogn. 
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