Frosunda / Froesunda / Frösunda / Frøsunda

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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation? - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left
![Source caption: "bebådelsen" [Annunciation]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200331005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "bebådelsen" [Annunciation]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation?

Scene Description: Source caption: "två motställda gestalter - visitatio (?)"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant-regardant

Scene Description: the long-tailed beast appears to have its head turned towards the back -- the animal head visible here in the centre of the base is not quite feline
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-032.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117691.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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animal - head - lion?

Scene Description: odd-looking head with a curled mane, googly eyes and front paws
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-030.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117688.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-regardant

Scene Description: though much eroded, probably a lion, as identified in the SHM caption to this image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion? - head

Scene Description: Source caption: "lejonhuvud"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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animal - unidentified

Scene Description: seen here on the right, perhaps simian? its front paws hold the roll moulding, as if it were climbing up
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: though much eroded some details can still be discerned in this old photograph: the rope-patterned arch-heads, the intricate interlacing on the supporting columns and the spandrels, etc.
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-030.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117688.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: a substantial one
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-030.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117688.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: seen here as part of the basin block
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-030.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117688.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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head - fabulous animal or monster? - devil?

Scene Description: Source caption: "demonhuvud"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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head - fabulous animal or monster? - devil?

Scene Description: Source caption: "demonhuvud"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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head - unidentified

Scene Description: probably animal; pair of paws or hands below
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-033.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117692.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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human figure - head - male - bearded

Scene Description: seen here in the centre of the base; pair of hands carved below
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-030.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117688.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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scene [unidentified]

Scene Description: on the left a possible Visitation scene; on the right there appear to be two figures facing each other
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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view of base

Scene Description: with three pf the figures visible here; the one on the extreme left, possibly simian, appars to climb up to the roll moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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view of basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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view of church exterior - bell-cote
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church exterior - stone - Runic inscription

Scene Description: Source caption: "Runsten U Fv1993;231 vid Frösunda Kyrka, Vallentuna Kommun, Sverige Björn läto göra minnesmärket efter Fulner hans fader.""
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gitta2, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2018 by Gitta2 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rune_stone_at_Frösunda_Kyrka._Sweden.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: showing the church building with the west end in the foreground; the bright-red bell-cote is in the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L.G.Foto, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2011 by LG.foto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_Kyrka_från_luften.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
view of church interior - looking west
view of font
![[NB: the image was probably flipped horizontally in the source inadvertedly]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200307018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: the image was probably flipped horizontally in the source inadvertedly]
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph taken Martin Olsson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-029.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117686.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font

Scene Description: much eroded basin side; note also that the correspondence between the basin and the base changed in this series of photographs
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-031.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117689.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-032.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117691.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font

Scene Description: umidentified scenes; on the left a seated figure ; in the right two seated figures, one holding up two objects
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1912 by Albin Liljenqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-034.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117693.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph taken in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-035.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117694.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by Otto Janse, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [3768-036.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frösunda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200117696.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font

Scene Description: the basin programme is very worn and its details very hard to discern -- a couchant animal in the centre arch here
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2019 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrösundaDopfunt1901.jpg] accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font

Scene Description: the basin programme is very worn and its details very hard to discern -- both arches visible here contain human figures
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2019 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrösundaDopfunt1902.jpg] accessed 24 February 2020]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940714F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940714F3] [accessed 31 March 2020]
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