Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 62
the foundation of Roman culture, at thesame time substituting their own emblems of their national THE IRON AGE. 4-t gods in place of the classic ones in their decorative work.We can safely gather from this that the Hunnic invasionof the Roman Empire was the indirect means of giving toNorthern… … Fig. 64.—Golden Bracteate from Scandinavia. {Danish Arts.) goat sacred to Thor, the triad three dots, and the swastika.On the border is the triskele (Odins sign), Freys cross,and the zigzag or lightning. The larger bracteate (Fig. 64) has Thor with the he-goat surrounded by the swastika, triskele,…
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