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Title: The University-Museum of Northern Antiquities in Christiania; a short guide for visitors
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Universitetet i Oslo. Universitetets oldsaksamling Undset, Ingvald, 1853-1893
Subjects: Scandinavia -- Antiquities
Publisher: Christiania, A. Cammermeyer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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— 10 — The Cases ii —12 exhibit a variety of objects in bronzefrom difterent parts of the country; finer tasteful shapes can benoticed. Those acquainted with the great quantity of bronze inthe museums of Copenhagen and Stockhohn, will, however, besurprised at the scarcity of it here; the inhabitants of distantNorway no doubt at this time, continued to make use of theirstone implements. The bronze objects may generally be ascribedto the.thousand years before Christ. Fig. 9—13 show some bronzes, found in Norway. SECOND ROOM. THE OLDER IRON AGE. The beginning of the iron age in Northern Europe dates,on the whole, from influences arising from the civilization pre-vailing among the nations of southern Central Europe, in thelast centuries before Christ. Traces of such ante-Roman influencesmay also be observed in Norway, but it is only when the Ro-mans at the time of Christs birth had established themselvesnorth of the Alps, and from those stations and colonies begunto influence the

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