. Bergens Museums aarbog. Science. Haakon Schetelig-. [No. 8 starpattern ) The Prussian forms may perhaps have iniluenced some of the late varieties of the cruciform brooches — as we shall see below — but they touch in no respect the early development of this type. The brooch which was in the 4th cent. most commonly used in the Roman provinces (fig. I)2) and which is so well known to all students of the archaeology of Northern Europe has, on the' other hand, been regarded as the prototype of the cruciform brooches by two of the iirst authorities of Scan- dinavia, dr. I. Undset and dr. So
. Bergens Museums aarbog. Science. Haakon Schetelig-. [No. 8 starpattern ) The Prussian forms may perhaps have iniluenced some of the late varieties of the cruciform brooches — as we shall see below — but they touch in no respect the early development of this type. The brooch which was in the 4th cent. most commonly used in the Roman provinces (fig. I)2) and which is so well known to all students of the archaeology of Northern Europe has, on the' other hand, been regarded as the prototype of the cruciform brooches by two of the iirst authorities of Scan- dinavia, dr. I. Undset and dr. Sophus ) A different opinion has always been pronounced by the Swe- dish archaeologists, from the first great typological researches by dr. H. Hildebrand to the recent books by dr. 0. Almgren and dr. B. Salin. The Swedish school finds, in contradiction to dr. Undset and dr. Muller, in the cruciform brooch a form of pure Teutonic origin de- veloped from the brooch with returned foot. I shall here try to give detailed proofs that the last mentioned opinion is the right one, though it must al- ways be understood that the Roman forms of that age generally influenced the taste of Teutonic tribes, even in cases where the diiferent elements constituting the form as a type owed their origin to entirely native. 1) Illustrations of such Prussian brooches are found: Dr. Almgren: Studien uber nordeurop. Fibelform. Stockholm 1897, fig. 167 and 168. — Photographi- sches Album der Ausstellung zu Berlin, Section I, Taf. 9 —11 (brooches with starpattern foot Taf. 10, fig. 445—450). — Dr. Salin: Die altgermanische Thier- ornamentik, Stockholm 1904, p. 69 ss. 2) The specimen is found in the Rhine-provinces, now in the Bergen Museum. To the development of this type see Almgren, 1. c. p. 88. 3) Ingvald Undset: Das erste Auftreten des Eisens in Nordeuropa p. 295. — Dr. Sophus Muller: Ordning af Danmarks Oldsager, Jernalderen fig. 256 and text p. 59 (to fig. 548). — The same opi
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