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 43
ear to the eye to be really circumscribed, whereas theyabhorred everything that was flat. For this reason they providedthe transformed fibula with a perpendicular rim, which in thecourse of time became gradually broader, and sometimes ac-quired a peculiar ornament of its own. It would be too… … Fig. 18.— Fibula. Gutlandic type. The boundary between the original fibula and the later perpen-dicular rim has disappeared and the entire surface is covered witha network of fantastic animals. The fibulae of this class areusually described in the archaeological terminology of Scandinaviaas having…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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