A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . 9, which my com-patriots swallowed without question. Aftera hasty glance at these pictures and the beau-tiful painted ceiling, we hastened on to theCathedral, for we wanted to see the cele-brated bronze doors, the wonderful Eastercolumn and the famous rose bush. The so-called Paradise Doors were cast byBishop Bernward in 1015. They areadorned with sixteen reliefs representing theFall of Man and the Redemption. Begin-ning at the top of the left-hand door, thesubjects represented are, The Creation ofMan, God Presenting Eve to Ada
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . 9, which my com-patriots swallowed without question. Aftera hasty glance at these pictures and the beau-tiful painted ceiling, we hastened on to theCathedral, for we wanted to see the cele-brated bronze doors, the wonderful Eastercolumn and the famous rose bush. The so-called Paradise Doors were cast byBishop Bernward in 1015. They areadorned with sixteen reliefs representing theFall of Man and the Redemption. Begin-ning at the top of the left-hand door, thesubjects represented are, The Creation ofMan, God Presenting Eve to Adam,The First Sin, Adam and Eve drivenfrom Paradise, etc., around through TheCrucifixion, The Women at the Tomb,to the final Nole me tangere, at the upperright-hand corner. The Easter Columnprobably was intended for the shaft of amammoth Pascal Candlestick. It wasmade in 1022 by Bishop Bernward, whoundoubtedly took the idea from TrajansColumn at Rome. The reliefs, which beginat the base of the column, ascend in a spiraland represent scenes from the life of HiLDESHEIM A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 155 Of course I do not pretend to be a judge,but it is my humble opinion that the pictureson the column are far better in design thanthe panels of the doors. In a side chapelthere is a brazen baptismal font of the thir-teenth century that is well worth examining,and the immense chandelier presented tothe church by Bishop Hezilo (d. 1079)is also worthy of notice. It is in the formof a circular wall, with twelve towers andtwelve portals, and has an inscription ex-plaining that it is intended to represent theHeavenly Jerusalem. We gazed at it,while a stout priest delivered a lecture inHigh Dutch, not a word of which could weunderstand, and when he paused for breath,by means of some English, Latin and LowDutch, we managed to make him under-stand that we would like to see the Altrose arbor. He unlocked a door and letus into the famous cloister, with its doublearcade, built in 1070, and
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