Norsk døpefont i Hólar domkirke på Island

• Main Author: Mona Bramer Solhaug
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian; Swedish
• Published: Novus 2009
• Subjects: Modern history; 1453-; D204-475; Medieval history; D111-203; Circumcision; Skálholt; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/11218290542342aa8dd9b8364697947f

Hólar Cathedral in Hjaltadal has a richly carved baptismal font of soapstone, which the author maintains is reworked from a Norwegian medieval font. An inscription confirms that Guðmundur Guðmundsson carved the ornaments in year 1674, figures and inscriptions according to models and a pictorial prog...