In answer of Esotec's original question, I stumbled upon this sequence as translated by Google on pdf page 99, original page 195:
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In the Viking Age, in addition to the previously mentioned crosses, axes and hammer more into the foreground. Snorri Sturluson says the Godessaga in Hakon Chapter 17, that there was a sign in the north that was holy to Thor, hammer sign is called and has a resemblance to a cross. We find on gravestones and coins that represent Thor's hammer symbols. At the end of the 10th century a slightly modified shape of the cross can be seen: the arms of the cross have crossbars preserved (Fig. 104). This is the sign of the advancing Christianity and became the popular symbol of Christians from the Baltic Sea region to southern Russia there. O. Montelius has already proven that the equal-armed cross not only came to the north as a Christian symbol, but for a long time was previously alive as a four-spoked wheel and sun sign until the Viking Age and only then was it taken over by the Nordic Christians. In this sense have we understand these signs of the cross on the axes.
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