A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . ^*=^^3«m k/ Jt^-. The 1000 Year Rose-tree A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 157 ably, is that every thing is struggling to-wards the light, symbolic of Christ thelight of the world. The Latin inscriptionon one, as near as I could make out, reads,Bernward made this candelabre, first childof his skill to flower, not as gold, not assilver, but that thou should discern the strug-gle. There are many other objects of in-terest in this little church. We noticedespecially two bronze candlesticks of thethirteenth century, a large, early Gothic
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . ^*=^^3«m k/ Jt^-. The 1000 Year Rose-tree A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 157 ably, is that every thing is struggling to-wards the light, symbolic of Christ thelight of the world. The Latin inscriptionon one, as near as I could make out, reads,Bernward made this candelabre, first childof his skill to flower, not as gold, not assilver, but that thou should discern the strug-gle. There are many other objects of in-terest in this little church. We noticedespecially two bronze candlesticks of thethirteenth century, a large, early Gothic Pas-cal candlestick, a beautiful Gothic Chalicedating from 1500, and a silver reliquarycontaining the bones of the saint. From Magdalens, we went to the Cryptbelow St. Michaels Church to see the stonesarcophagus of St. Bernward, and, after-wards, up into the church itself to see thewonderful painted ceiling. It dates fromthe twelfth century and represents the gene-alogy of Christ. In the afternoon we tooka train for Brunswick, and, on arriving there,spent the time until
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