Iconography

Lyre from Norum Church

By Gjermund Kolltveit / August 25, 2014 /

This summer I have worked with instrument building. One of the projects was to build a reconstruction of the lyre from a font in Norum Church, Bohuslän, Sweden. It is dated to the 12th century, and is part of several depictions of Gunnar in the snake pit, found in Scandinavia. This stone carving does not…

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