The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time (1883)
Hildebrand, Hans, 1842-1913 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman & Hall · leaf 143
for an intendeduse, but which have never been finished. To the technicalstudy of the pagan iron-work of Scandinavia they may prove ofgreat importance. Iron at this time was hardly ever cast; it was hammered, as wehave seen, and, as a close scrutiny of the contents of the Scandi-navian collections… … Fig. hi.—Hatchet, inlaid with silver. Sweden. Although manners in some respects of patriarchal simplicitymust have been prevalent during the Scandinavian Iron Age—andto the present day, not only the Scandinavian peasant in moreremote districts, but even the burgher retains in a high degree…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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