The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . this kind, fig. 94. The inlaid work here spoken of became popularamongall the peoples in the southern zone, includingthe Jutes, and to a less extent the Saxons, of ourown country. It only appears sporadically in Scan-dinavian art and then chiefly in Gotland, where itoccurs commonly in a certain class of fibulae whichhave technical affinities with those found in is equally foreign to the art of the Angles inBritain, a fact that confirms the view of Hoops andothers that, whereas the main body of the Angliansettlers in north-eastern Britai
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . this kind, fig. 94. The inlaid work here spoken of became popularamongall the peoples in the southern zone, includingthe Jutes, and to a less extent the Saxons, of ourown country. It only appears sporadically in Scan-dinavian art and then chiefly in Gotland, where itoccurs commonly in a certain class of fibulae whichhave technical affinities with those found in is equally foreign to the art of the Angles inBritain, a fact that confirms the view of Hoops andothers that, whereas the main body of the Angliansettlers in north-eastern Britain came directly oversea from Schleswig, the Jutes and the Saxons enteredthe country by the way of the Rhinelandand of Gaul,where they had been open to southern, ultimatelyGothic, influences. A striking proof of the attractiveness for the Teu-tonic eye of this inlaid work, is the fact that in nor-thern Gaul and the Rhineland it superseded thepopular and very pleasing Gallo-Roman enamelwork which had been flourishing in the previous 182 PLATE XXIV. 93 94
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