1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 7 
fig. 37, figs. 108—115) to which they have an aceidental likeness. 
Moreover, such brooches as the form just referred to are unknown 
in Western Norway 
at this time. TO 
When we re- | Fe 
member that the er 
large and characteri- 
stic brooches, figs. 
91—95, are contem- 
porary with the most 
degenerated forms of 
other varieties (com- 
pare figs.57—58 and 
81—883) it is not' 
astonishing that they 
could spread out- 
side Western Nor- 
way where they had 
been originally de- 
veloped. They are, 
however, very rare 
in the Eastern parts 
of the Peninsula 
whose direct com- 
munications with the 
West coast were at 
that time — as far as 
we know — carried 
on at å rather small 
scale. They found 
their way northwards 
fo the Romsdal and 
to the country around 
the Trondhjemsfjord 
where Eastern forms 
had till that time 
been predominant, if 
we may conclude 
from the scanty mate- 
rial of cruciform brooches preserved or From here they 
came to the Northern districts of Sweden; many of them are 
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