Gronning / Grønning

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - devouring human head

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - devouring human head

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - devouring human head

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design element - motifs - rope - knotted rope

Scene Description: running rope around the base sides

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human figure - male - hanging from a tree

Scene Description: notice the little [money?] bag handing from the belt [cf. FontNotes]

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human figure - male - hanging from a tree

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human figure - male - standing - grasping his throat

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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information

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information

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view of base

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view of base - east side

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view of base - northwest side - monster with human female as prey

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view of base - south side - hanging woman?

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view of base - south side - hanging woman?

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view of base - southwest side - monster head with wamon's face

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view of base - west side

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: a lion passant to the left

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font - east side

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view of font - south side

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font in context - west side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01104GRO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)

Church/Chapel: Grønning parish church

Church Location: Grønning, Grønningvej 15A, 7870 Roslev, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 97 57 60 60

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Viborg, Midtjylland

Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 551, on the NW side of the Skive Fjord, in the municipality and about 8 kms N of Skive, about 8 km SE of Roslev

Ecclesiastic Region: Viborg Stift

Historical Region: Nørre herred, Viborg amt, Jylland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N pillar of the chancel arch

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century (?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hegvald / Hegwald

Font Notes: Click to view

Roosval (1918) suggests that the carving of this font was inspired by the Gotland masters but made locally in Jutland, but Mackeprang (1941) rejects that suggestion and instead lists this font among a number of stone baptismal fonts in Denmark originally imported from Gotland; the basin is lost; between the large protruding heads of fabulous monsters on the base are: a person grasping his(?) neck with the right hand, another figure attached to a tree stump by a rope and a third hone hanging from a tree trunk; one of them has a pouch hanfing from the belt; a possible representation of Judas? The round base with large protruding heads, illustrated in Karlsson (1985: fig.9), shows scenes from the suicide of Judas [cf. dupra]. Bodel Franck (1985: 21-24) has noted the comparison between these scenes with that shown of a hanging on a carved scene on a Viking stone from Gotland now at Bunge Museum, Gotland. The modern basin was installed in 1964. [NB: although one source [https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%B8nning_Kirke] [accessed 1 December 2024] has claimed that the second font in this church, a granite font located in the tower room, that consists of a hemispherical basin raised on a round-to-square lowwer base, is an ancient one, close observation suggests instead that it is a modern one, prerhaps of the 18th century]. On-ste visit: base programme L-->R: NW monster with human prey in the mouth -- W hanging woman? -- SW monster head [re-cut] with woman's face -- S hanging woman? -- SE monster head -- E hanging woman? -- NE cut monster head with human face -- N blank. The whole programme makes the base look very suspicious; how much of it was original?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.649722, 9.058056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 38′ 59″ N, 9° 3′ 29″ E

UTM: 32V 503560 6278397

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Height of Base: 34 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Danmarks Kirker, Nationalmuseet i København. Accessed: 2024-12-01 00:00:00. URL: http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk.

Franck, Bodil, "De to haengte", 3 (1985), ICO – Iconographisk Post. Nordisk tidskrift för bildtolkning – Nordic Review of Iconography, 1985, pp. 21-24, 4 fig. English summary.; p. 21-24

Karlsson, Lennart, "Tradition och förnyelse", 1985

Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918