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Title: Bergens Museum årbok
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Bergen Museum
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Publisher: Bergen : Bergens Museum
Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London
Digitizing Sponsor: Natural History Museum Library, London

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to connect the broken lines, I make outa shield in the middle with a long lance or spear, held in anobUque position behind it. Some curves on both sides of the shieldseem to form parts of two wings. The open place under the shieldbeing large enough to admit a rather large figure, I am inclinedto believe that the subject treated is St. Michael piercing theDragon. This interpretation is supported to a certain degree by St.Michael being one of the best known saints in Norway. The other ) Pa gripu Pæir prest uvnranda oe hrntn bada fotleggi d homim, stijfduaf tungunni oe stungo hæde aougnn or haufdi honum. Gammel noisk Homilie-bog p. 155. -) lind. p. 155 — 156. 1-iOS) The Legendary Representations on tlie Frontal from Kaupanoer. 17 panels treating of the miracles or martyrdoms of St. Nicholas, St.Andrew, St. Peter and St. Olav, it is to be supposed that the lastpanel left also would show a saint of equal importance and renownas these. Now it is known that of churches in Norway 60 were
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^m Fi^. 2. dedicated to St. Mary, 49 to St. Olav, 30 to St. Peter, 28 to St,Michael, 24 to St. Lawrence, 19 to St. Margaret, 14 to St. Johnthe Baptist, 13 to St. Nicholas, 13 to St. Paul, and 11 to St.Andrew. The list shows that St. Michael follows closely after thethree most honoured saints, St. Mary, St. Olav, and St. Peter wha lg Fredrik B. Wallem. (No. 13 all are commemorated on our Frontal. This adds some additionalstrength to the supposition that the lower panel on the left siderepresents St. Michael, as the Frontal on the whole seems to giverepresentations of some of the most honoured and most popularsaints in Norway. And no scene is more frequent in the iconography of St.Michael than the combat between the saint und the Dragon. 1 Bergens Museums Aarbog 1905.No. 14. Fortegnelse over de til Bergens museum i 1905 indkomne sager ældreend reformationen. AfHaakon Schetelig. (Witli List of Illnstrations in Engiish). 1. Gravfund fra folkevandring-stiden fra Storesimd, Torvestad sogno

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