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editor — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:42:00 +0000

Proto-Bronze Age: rectilinear designs following the Neolithic traditions of the Nordic culture. Early Bronze Age: transition to geometric spiral ornament. Middle Bronze Age: the spiral ornament gives place to star patterns. Late Bronze Age: the star patterns in turn are replaced by spiral whorls and bands of wavy lines; the decoration becomes less rigidly geometric and begins to incorporate vegetable forms (tendrils and foliage). Rich assemblages of grave goods have been found in burial mounds, particularly at Uppsala and Seddin. The existence of a solar cult is reflected in numerous representations of solar discs, as in the Trundholm sun chariot”,

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Traveling in Sweden

editor — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:02:00 +0000

South German type, became the main type of animal ornament on the European continent. In Animal Style III, which developed in Scandinavia about 700, highly abstract animal figures are used to form elaborate ornamental compositions, producing for example circular whorls or mirror-image pairs. Here again the burin was used. The Viking style or late animal style (a.d. 800-1100). The great Viking expansion was made possible by their keeled boats, with strengthened bottoms to take the mast and keel, like those found in a bog at Nydam in Slesvig (three sea-going boats dating from the 4th c. the largest being an

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Travel to Sweden

editor — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 07:30:00 +0000

SWEDEN This gifted energetic king beats back attacks by Denmark, Poland and Russia (battle of Narva, 1700) and carries the war into the enemy countries. On an adventurous expedition into the Ukraine, however, he is decisively defeated at Poltava in 1709 and flees into Turkey. In 1716, accompanied by two faithful followers, he rides in 16 days to Stralsund. He is killed in 1718 under the walls of the Norwegian fortress of Fredrikssten. This ends the short period of absolutist rule in Sweden. Towards constitutional government and neutrality 1719-72 The Era of Liberty. After this collapse Sweden is compelled to

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Sweden Travel

editor — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 21:52:00 +0000

In the Iron Age, which dates in Scandinavia from about 600 B.C. to a.d. 400, the decorative art of the Bronze Age disappears and is replaced by only the most modest attempts at ornament. The magnificent silver cauldron found in a bog at Gundestrup, near Alborg in Jutland (National Museum, Copenhagen), with half-length figures of deities on the outside and scenes of sacrifice on the inside, is thought to be a cult vessel of Celtic origin dating from about the beginning ofthe Christian era. The second main period of Germanic art in Scandinavia, the early historical period of the first

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