A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . In the middle of the chapelis a monument of elaborate Renaissance de-sign, in yellowish marble, with the recum-bent figures of the king and his two this chapel at the back of the mainaltar, in a receptacle of iron grill work, isthe shrine of St. Erik, containing the bonesof the king, a crown, and part of his gar-ments. At the east end of the north aisleis a flight of stairs leading to the are preserved an interesting collectionof ancient vestments and hangings that be-long to the church. Every centur
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . In the middle of the chapelis a monument of elaborate Renaissance de-sign, in yellowish marble, with the recum-bent figures of the king and his two this chapel at the back of the mainaltar, in a receptacle of iron grill work, isthe shrine of St. Erik, containing the bonesof the king, a crown, and part of his gar-ments. At the east end of the north aisleis a flight of stairs leading to the are preserved an interesting collectionof ancient vestments and hangings that be-long to the church. Every century from thetwelfth down is represented. Besides theecclesiastical vestments, the collection con-tains two groups of rare and valuable tex-tile objects of secular origin, the so-calledSture garments, consisting of costumes wornby the Counts Sture, who were murdered inthe castle of Upsala in 1567. The secondgroup are the so-called Margareta relics,brought home by King Carl X., after thetreaty of Roeskilde from the cathedral ofthat city, supposed to have belonged to. Upsala Cathedral i A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 119 Queen Margareta of Denmark (d. 1412)and deposited here in 1658. Taken togetherthey give a very good idea of what was wornby men and women of the nobility duringthe Middle Ages. On leaving the churchwe went around to see the south door, whichdates from 1300 and is considered the finestof the three portals. From the church wewent to the University Library, as we wishedto see the famous Codex Argenteus, a trans-lation of the four Gospels into Moeso-Gothic, made by Bishop Ulphilas in thefourth century. The custodian led us intothe Exhibition Room and showed us thisancient book. It is written in letters ofgold and silver upon one hundred and eighty-seven leaves of red parchment, that time hasfaded to a soft purple, and is bound in anelaborate wrought silver cover that prob-ably was made a thousand years after thebook was written and yet may have been oldwhen the Pilgrim Fath
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