Controversial discussions about the origins, development, and meaning of Germanic Animal Style II are still taking place. The way that it spread quickly and widely within just a few decades, from Scandinavia to Northern Italy, was astonishing, raising questions about not just from where, how, and why this style made its way through vast regions of Europe so rapidly but also why this only occurred in regions with Germanic-speaking populations.

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Frank Behrens, Freiburg, Germany.