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 26
avoured country allured it, and it moved on. The new stateof civilisation thus created had therefore only a temporarycharacter. In the North the circumstances were completelydifferent. Owing to its distance from the centres of Europeancivilisation, foreign influences arrived there late, and the… … Fig. 6.—Bronze fibula, found in Norway. civilisation thus attained a consistent character. The foreigninfluences, working at a distance from the people from which-they issued, and thus avoiding the crushing results of closecontact, were gradually assimilated to the old and nativecultivation to…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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