Nas nr. Östersund / Näs

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B01: representations ~ gods, demi-gods, heroes etc. (Germanic and Scandinavian religions) - Gunnar - Gunnar in the serpents' pit - Gunnar playing the lyre with his feet - in a circle

Scene Description: in the first circle of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B01: representations ~ gods, demi-gods, heroes etc. (Germanic and Scandinavian religions) - Gunnar - Gunnar in the serpents' pit - Gunnar playing the lyre with his feet - in a circle - detail

Scene Description: in the first circle of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B02: Animal - fabulous animal or monster - human head - in a circle - detail

Scene Description: in the second circle of the basin, facing right -- the head and upper body are human-like, but it has avian legs with large claws, and a long articulated tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - with human head - in a circle

Scene Description: in the second circle of the basin, facing right -- the head and upper body are human-like, but it has avian legs with large claws, and a long articulated tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B03: Animal - fabulous animal or monster - human head - in a circle

Scene Description: in the third circle of the basin, facing left -- like the one to the left, the head and upper body are human-like, but it has avian legs with large claws, and a long articulated tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B03: Animal - fabulous animal or monster - human head - in a circle - detail

Scene Description: in the third circle of the basin, facing left -- like the one on the circle to the left, the head and upper body are human-like, but it has avian legs with large claws, and a long articulated tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B03: Animal - fabulous animal or monster - human head - in a circle - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - unidentified - in a circle

Scene Description: in the fourth circle of the basin, its head facing right -- canine head with pointed ears, a winged body and a coiled tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - unidentified - in a circle - detail

Scene Description: in the fourth circle of the basin, its head facing right -- canine head with pointed ears, a winged body and a coiled tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B05: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - unidentified - in a circle - detail

Scene Description: in the fifth circle of the basin, its head facing left -- like the one to the left, it has a canine head with pointed ears, a winged body and a coiled tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B05: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - unidentified - in a circle - detail

Scene Description: in the fifth circle of the basin, its head facing left -- like the one to the left, it has a canine head with pointed ears, a winged body and a coiled tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B05: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - unidentified - in a circle - detail

Scene Description: in the fifth circle of the basin, its head facing left -- like the one to the left, it has a canine head with pointed ears, a winged body and a coiled tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified - in a circle

Scene Description: in the sixth circle of the basin, its head turned right and upwards -- only the reptilian head is easily identifiable in this creature; the body apeears to have no other shape but the vegetal interlace that fills and forms part of the circle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified - in a circle - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

animal - quadruped - feline? - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth

Scene Description: floppy ears and bulging eyes; two vines stem from its mouth, the vines that interlace and create the circles on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

animal - quadruped - feline? - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth - detail

Scene Description: floppy ears and bulging eyes; two vines stem from its mouth, the vines that interlace and create the circles on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

animal - quadruped - feline? - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth - detail

Scene Description: floppy ears and bulging eyes; two vines stem from its mouth, the vines that interlace and create the circles on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: vine-like, forming six circles populated with five beasts and one legend episode -- in the left circle, the legend of Gunnar in the serpents' pit; in the right circle, a fabulous animal with a human head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - bearing fruit

Scene Description: several vines intertwined

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - bearing fruit

Scene Description: one of the vegetal interlaces between the circles of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

information

Scene Description: SHM label for this font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken [with permission] 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "drake"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "Näs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av trä, detalj. Se även Lockne kyrka." [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image [4128-47.TIF] of a 1950 B&W photograph by Iwar Anderson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200041554.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the two fabulous creatures with human upper bodies

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: detail of the two facing canine-headed creatures in circles four and five

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gunnar i ormgropen"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gunnar i ormgropen"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gunnar i ormgropen"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "två antropomorfa drakar"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "två drakar"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken [with permission] 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken [with permission] 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the centre drain and the lateral damage to the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1948?

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Källström (1948: pl. 68)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption; "Näs kyrka [...] Dopfunt av trä. Se även Lockne kyrka." [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image [4128-45.TIF] of a 1950 B&W photograph by Iwar Anderson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Näs_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200041552.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] [accessed 13 May 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font

Scene Description: the replica font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: photograph by Johnny Danielsson in 'Finbesök i Näs kyrka', 17 June 2011 [www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?id=790744] [accessed 16 October 2012]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum on 9 June 1997

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken [with permission] 9 June 1997 by BSI

view of font - side 1

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of font - side 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of font - side 3

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of font - side 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of font - side 5

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

view of font - side 6

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 (with SHM permission) by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00173NAS

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens historiska museum, Stockholm [this font was on loan at the Östersund museum for several years, but is now [2012] back in the SHM]

Church/Chapel: [originally from Näs Kyrka]

Church Location: Månsta 260, 830 22 Fåker, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 63 140 30 10

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Jämtland, Jämtlands län

Directions to Site: Located off the E45, just S of Fåker, in the municipality and about 25 km SSW of Östersund [NB: there are several entries in BSI under the toponym 'Näs']

Ecclesiastic Region: Härnösands stift -- Näs församling

Historical Region: Jämtlands län

Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: a modern replica of this font is located at Jamtli

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lennart Karlsson, to the curator for the medieval collections and the staff at the SHM for their help in documenting this font during our two visits. We are also grateful to the helpful staff at Östersund Museum, and to Göran Tegnér, Senior Curator at the SHM, for keeping us informed of the whereabouts of this "travelling" font

Church Notes: present church chiefly mid-18thC but there are remains from a medieval church here, possibly 12thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Cornell (1918). Illustrated in Källström (1948); he gives the location as the SHM in Stockholm. Noted in M. Blindheim's Fra hedensk sagnfigur til kristet forbilde (in ICO, 1973). Noted in A. Andersson's The inhabited scroll och dess innebörd i nordisk funtikonografi Fra Sankt Olav til Martin Luther (1975). In Karlsson (1976). Nordström (1984) identifies a scene with Gunnar and the Serpents legend among other ornamentation. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1] as a baptismal font made of of single block from a tree trunk of pine ca. 1200; the SHM entry further points out that in some early sources this font is given its location as the nearby church in Lockne; the SHM notes the similarities of the base carvings with examples from Norway. On-site notes at the SHM: this font was for many years at the Statens historiska museum of Stockholm; it was then loaned to the Ostersund Museum, and returned again to SHM, where it is now [2012] a permanent exhibit. The round basin has a wide band of interlace carvings between two mouldings at the upper and lower ends; two vines stem from the a monstruous lion-like head and form seven circles of interlaced vines around the basin; the carving is exhuberant and the vegetation interacts with the six 'beings' that populate the circles; to the right of the lion, in the first circle is Gunnar in the serpents' pit, being bitten by multiple snakes while he plays the harp [a lyre?] with his feet; the vines interlace around the rest of the basin forming five further circles and entangling the bodies of the other fibe creatures. The chalice-shaped font is made from a single block of oak, deeply carved; the inside of the basin has a central hole in the bowl for drainage, although one would assume there would have been a lining with it. Six circles with intertwined foilage are carved around the sides of the bowl. The conical base has a thick roll moulding at the top and a band of carved interlaced vine motif on the sides below.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 62.974119, 14.574425

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 62° 58′ 26.83″ N, 14° 34′ 27.93″ E

UTM: 33V 478425 6982777

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, pine

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: round (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining present

Rim Thickness: 6.5-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 46 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 59-61 cm* / 60 cm*

Basin Depth: 22-23 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 43 cm*

Basin Total Height: 51.5-53.5 cm*

Height of Base: 40-41 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 91.5-94.5 cm* / 94 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 901129F1]

REFERENCES

Cornell, Henrik, Sveriges kyrkor: Medelpad, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1929-1939

Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974

Karlsson, Lennart, Romansk träornamentik i Sverige, Stockholm: Stokholm University, 1976-1977

Källström, Olle, Altare och funt, Stockholm: Svenska kyrkans diakonistyrelses bokförlag, 1948

Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984

Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921