History of the church and state in Norway from the tenth to the sixteenth century . n the church as a memorial of this strangeoccurrence, where the remains of a large bear-skin are still to be the church he is said to have found, among other things, somepictures, a little brass shrine, four large bells and one small one. Itwas against one of these that the hunters arrow had struck and pro-duced the sound which attracted his attention. ( A. Faye, NorskeFolkesagn, quoted by Dietrichson, Norske Stavkirker, page 354.) The little brass shrine, once used as a reliquary, is still preserved in
History of the church and state in Norway from the tenth to the sixteenth century . n the church as a memorial of this strangeoccurrence, where the remains of a large bear-skin are still to be the church he is said to have found, among other things, somepictures, a little brass shrine, four large bells and one small one. Itwas against one of these that the hunters arrow had struck and pro-duced the sound which attracted his attention. ( A. Faye, NorskeFolkesagn, quoted by Dietrichson, Norske Stavkirker, page 354.) The little brass shrine, once used as a reliquary, is still preserved inthe church, and is remarkable for its representation of the martyrdomof St. Thomas il Becket, of Canterbury. This interesting relic of themiddle ages (see picture next page) is believed, on the best authority,to have been made about fifty years after the martyrdom, and is there-fore one of the very earliest, if not the earliest, representations of themurder of St. Thomas of Canterbury. It is worthy of note how thecult of the holy blissful martyr of Canterbury prevailed in Norway. THE EAVAGES OF THE SORTE D0D. 247 escaped the pestilence; it stalked north, south, east, andwest, and the memory of its desolating presence has neverbeen effaced from the minds of the people. Other nationsof Europe suffered from the same terrible plague, but theyhave forgotten it. The memory of it still survives amongthe b0nder of Norway. There was, however, one bright spot in the universalgloom which the plague spread over the land, and that wasthe heroic devotion of the bishops and clergy. None ofthem seem to have flinched from the post of duty anddanger. Through it all, they stood firm and ministered tothe sick and dying, but the price paid was a terrible archbishop and every bishop in Norway died of theplague, with the sole exception of Salomon of Oslo. InBergen in one day eighty persons were buried at a singlechurch, and among these were fourteen priests and sixdeacons. The chapter of Nida
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