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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 87

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without any appreciation of their meaning, andwithout the justice due from a copyist to his original. The decadence is considerable, but nevertheless there are tobe seen in the Royal Historical Museum of Stockholm specimenswhich are still worse. To conclude this chapter and to prepare the… … Fig. 68.—Ornament. Gotland. given in Figs. 53 and 54. To them I will only add Fig. 68, fouranimals copied from the side posts of a box-shaped fibula.They are treated in a decidedly conventional manner : the headhas its curious appendage, the body is as lean as that of anheraldic lion. Still, these…

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