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Ebook Celtic and Old Norse Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive) - Courtney Davis

 Artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople in search of exceptionally bold and inventive motifs will find them in this versatile treasury brimming with 125 royalty-free designs. Taken from authentic Celtic and Old Norse sources, they include an amazing array of birds, human figures, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into an intricate network of spirals and interlacings.  | Ị CẹLCỈC ANt OLO NORSG t GSỈGìNS couRtNey t Avis DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC. Mineola New York PUBLISHER S NOTE In this marvelous collection drawn from numerous Celtic and Old Norse sources in the British Isles and Scandinavia a rich selection of traditional Christian and secular designs is brought together. Some of the meticulously rendered designs were found in illuminated manuscripts missals and psalters of the Celtic Church including the incomparable Book of Kells and the earlier Book of Durrow and on Celtic stone crosses. Others are from runic inscriptions on stones Norse sword hilts and personal ornaments and the decoration of everyday artifacts such as bedposts horse collars and weather vanes. The sources of the designs are in Ireland Scotland Wales Cornwall Cumbria Gloucestershire Northumberland Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and the Isle of Man in England Denmark-Norway and Sweden. Created in the period from the 6th century to the 12th century A.D. some of them during the 9th and 10th centuries at the height of the Norse invasions and occupations of large areas of England and Ireland the designs represent the six major periods of Old Norse decoration the Broa Oseberg Borre Jellinge Mammen Ringerike and Urnes styles as well as many generations of Celtic Christian ornament chiefly elaborated in Ireland and Scotland. a from bronze mirror b from bronze mirror c from bronze bowl d and e from handles on spoons Celtic Designs