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Title: Bergens Museums aarbog
Identifier: bergensmuseumsaa1906berg (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Bergens Museum
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Bergen : (The Museum)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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1906) The cruciform brooches of Norway 77 fig*. 37, figs. 108 — 115) to which they have an accidental likeness. Moreover, such brooches as the form just referred to are unknown in Western Norway at this time. Wh en we re- member that the 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—83) 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 a rather small scale. They found their way northwards to 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 nere. From nere they came to the Northern districts of Sweden; many of them are
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