Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 15. 1974 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1976)
Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Szabó Miklós: A „magyar kardstílus” kialakulása. – The Development of the „Hungarian Sword Style”. XV, 1974. p. 25–37.
Aligha kétséges azonban, hogy ebben a szituációban terjedt el a „Waldalgesheim-stílus" a keleti kelták körében, s hogy ebben a légkörben érlelődtek meg annak feltételei, hogy az új kifejezésmódot értő mesterek műhelyeiben megszülessen a „magyar kardstílus". Vagyis mintegy száz évvel az első kelta hóThe paper is the Hungarian version of a lecture held at the Fifth International Congress of Celtic Studies (Penzance, April 6 — 13, 1975) and is a preliminary to the work preparing in collaboration with Eva F. Petres on Eastern Celtic decorated sword scabbards (It will probably appear in the next volume of Alba Regia.) The first part presents a short review of research on „Hungarian Sword Style", mentioning also the critical remarks opposed to Jacobsthal's conception, with the conclusion that there is no reason whatsoever to change or to abolish the term „Hungarian Sword Style". The publication is concentrated on the examination of how the „Hungarian" sword decorations are attached to the Eastern Celtic relics of the „Waldalgesheim Style" and how they can be deduced thereof. The starting point is therefore a summary of the pieces decorated in the Waldalgesheim manner found in the Middle Danube Basin, the main documents being reproduced on drawings (Hungarian National Museum, spear-head: pi. I; situlaof Alsópél: pl. II; sword of Liter: pi. Ill, IV/1. The most important novelty is the scabbard of Liter with tendril patterns in Waldalgesheim Style, composed in two triangular and a rhomboid field on the back side; a zoomorphic lyre motif under the mouth on the front side. It seems therefore that the workshops of the Middle Danube Basin have adopted from the traditions of the Waldalgesheim Style the decoration of the sword scabbards with a tendril pattern, too. A new conception appears on the sheath fragment from Voivodina (pi. IV/3.) : the zoomorphic lyre is coalesced with lotus variants drew form the repertory of the Waldaldító csapatok megjelenése után, a keleti kelta terület olyan önálló szólamként kapcsolódott be a La Tène művészet együttesébe, amelynek visszhangja a kelta világ nyugati végéig, a Brit-szigetekig ért( 58 ). Szabó Miklós gesheim Style; and although this ornament will not prove to be characteristic of the „Hungarian Sword Style", it is nevertheless significant as a starting point. In fact, the symmetrical disposition of the decoration, the use of the lyre motif as „skeleton" of the composition — all this can be found on some relics of the „Hungarian Sword Style" as well; the finest example thereof is a sword sheath from Jutas in the Bakonyi Museum of Veszprém (pl. V.). The explanations (cf. Notes 41 and 43) concerning the idea of the diagonal decoration (pi. VI.) — considered as the top achievement of the „Hungarian Sword Style" — are enriched by including the tendril composition in a rhombus on the scabbard of Liter. Another important new element is the sword sheath of Tapolca-Haláphegy (pl. VII/2.) decorated with both the Waldalgesheim tendril and the diagonal ornament of the „Hungarian Sword Style". This piece is a typical illustration of Jacobsthal's conception: the development of the „Hungarian Sword Style" is inconceivable without the existence to the Waldalgesheim Style. The diagonal ornament of the Tapolca sword is analyzed with help of the sword sheath of Kiskőszeg (Batina) (VU/1.). The last part deals with the historical situation of the second half of the 4 th century ВС, standing in the background of the penetration of the Waldalgesheim Style into Eastern Celtic environment and establishing also the conditions for the development of the „Hungarian Sword Style". Published in the present paper, the drawings by Mária Ecsedy are all taken from the originals. M. Szabó (58) Cf. J. M. DE NAVARRO, О. С, 291 skk; J. V. S. МЕGAW, о. с, HBA. — Az ,,Irish Sword Style"-hoz 1. Fr. HENRY, L'art irlandais. Párizs, 19*63, I. köt. 27. 1.; J. V. S. MEGAW, О. С, Art of the European Iron Age. 29. és 148., 248—249. sz. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE „HUNGARIAN SWORD STYLE" 30
