Davis Courtney. Celtic And Old Norse Designs

Dover Publications, 2000. — 47 p.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 iIluminated manuscripts, missals, and psalters of the Celtic Church (including the incomparable Book of Kells and the earlier Book of Ourrow) and on Celtic stone crosses. Others are from runic inscriptionson 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 lreland; Scotland; Wales; Cornwall, Cumbria, Gloucestershire, Northumberland, Sutton Hoo (in Suffolk), and the lsle 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 lreland), 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.