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animal - bird - eagle?

Scene Description: is it attacking the human figure/soul being protected by the lion, or is it the Holy Ghost also protecting the soul? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in DKM [https://www.furkirke.dk/om-kirken/kirkens-historie] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

Scene Description: is the dragon attacking the human? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(25).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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animal - mammal - lion - passant - with human prey?

Scene Description: The human in its lion's clasp.

Image Source: digital photograph in DKM [https://www.furkirke.dk/om-kirken/kirkens-historie] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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animal - mammal - lion - passant - with prey?

Scene Description: the lion on the left holds a human figure in its paws; prey? protected human? a soul? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(25).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Scene Description: the motif runs only about half of the circumference of the rim

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(25).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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human figure

Scene Description: in the lion's paws

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(25).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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human figure - head or demi-figure - 4

Scene Description: in the spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(22).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: between the tails of the two animals

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(22).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: on the lower base sides

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(22).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Fur Kirke i Danmark. Kirken set fra nordøst"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(07).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of the island Fur, Denmark, seen from NW. Fur Kirke set fra nordvest"

Image Source: digital photograph 20 June 2009 by Calvin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fur_Kirke_2.JPG] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fur Kirke i Danmark."

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(01).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of church interior - baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph in DKM [https://www.furkirke.dk/om-kirken/kirkens-historie] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fur Kirke i Danmark. Skibet set mod øst"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(13).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: " Fur Kirke i Danmark. Fur kirke, døbefont"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(22).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Døbefonten er lige så gammel som kirken og er hugget i romansk stil af en engelsk mester. Fonten er prydet med relieffigurer. En figur skildrer kampen mellem det gode og det onde, symboliseret ved en løve, der kæmper mod en drage om et menneske. En anden figur viser et vintræ, der symboliserer Jesu ord til disciplene: ”Jeg er vintræet, I er grenene.” [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in DKM [https://www.furkirke.dk/om-kirken/kirkens-historie] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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view of font - basin

Scene Description: Source caption: " Fur Kirke i Danmark. Fur kirke, døbefont"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2006 by Hideko Bondesen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordenskirker_Fur(25).jpg] [accessed 21 November 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25084FUR

Church/Chapel: Sct. Mortens Kirke, Fur i Limfjorden

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Fur Kirkevej 4A, 7884 Fur, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 97 59 30 63

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Skive, Midtjylland

Directions to Site: Located off Sundevej, in the municipality of Skive, overlooking Limfjord and the Fur Sund

Ecclesiastic Region: Viborg Stift

Date: n.d.

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: Romanesque church documented since 1126; modified 14th and 15thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Mackeprang (1941) who comments on the ambiguous symbolism of the different elements that make up the scenes at opposite sides of the basin, including the little human figures who may be medieval representations of the soul rather than prey for the animals. The topic is picked up in Søren Kaspersen's Jyske fonte med modstillede løver.[1] Et præliminært studie, 17.8.2016 klo 23.15 | Tieteelliset artikkelit | TAHITI 04/2016 [https://tahiti.journal.fi/article/view/85640/44590] [accessed 21 November 2023], who develops Mackeprang's idea further ["To andre døbefonte synes at iscenesætte lignende fortællinger. Mackeprang omtaler lige efter den ret simple Smidstup-font en rigere font på øen Fur i Limfjorden.[69] Her ses omkring et ’livstræ’ to fra hinanden bortvendte løver med hovederne en face. Hver holder i den ene pote en mandsling, som de synes i færd med at opsluge. Den ene løve er modstillet en drage, den anden en stor, stærkt bevæget fugl, sikkert Helligåndsduen – eller måske en ørn. Mackeprang, der kun omtaler den første løve, associerer umiddelbart til Peters brev men bemærker så, at ”alligevel er der i Samspillet mellem den [løven] og Dragen noget, der frister til at opfatte den lille, vistnok nøgne Mand ikke som dens Bytte, men som den almindelige middelalderlige Gengivelse af en Sjæl, saaledes at Løven fra at være dens Fjende forvandles til dens Beskærmer, Christus.” Hvilket man kun kan give ham ret i og bemærke, at dragens udrakte tunge ikke spiller mod løven og dens menneskeskikkelse men hænger slapt ned mod jorden og ender i en palmet. Magtesløs må den se til dens byttes bortrykkelse – eller i hvert fald løvens beskyttelse af det. Den værnende løve over for dragen har sikkert henvist til eksorcismen og performet nedybningen i fontens vande. Og den kan have smykket kummens nord– eller vestside. I første tilfælde har ’livstræet’ vendt mod øst, i andet mod nord. Den anden løve har sammen med fuglen talt om dåbsvandets livgivende kraft gennem nådesudgydelse og som sådan også om opstandelse, og den kan udmærket både have vendt mod syd og øst." The entry for this church in DKM [https://www.furkirke.dk/om-kirken/kirkens-historie] [accessed 21 November 2023] notes and illustrates a baptismal font made about the period of the church foundation [ca. 1126] by an English stonemason; a fight scene between a lion and a dragon over a human symbolise the struggle for the soul between good and evil; on the opposite side is a similar scene, the human figure or soul between a large eagle-like bird and the lion that holds him; also on the basin is vine, a symbol of Christ ["Døbefonten er lige så gammel som kirken og er hugget i romansk stil af en engelsk mester. Fonten er prydet med relieffigurer. En figur skildrer kampen mellem det gode og det onde, symboliseret ved en løve, der kæmper mod en drage om et menneske. En anden figur viser et vintræ, der symboliserer Jesu ord til disciplene: ”Jeg er vintræet, I er grenene”]. Also noted and illustrated in the DKM source (ibid.) is a baptismal dish made of brass ca, 1575 decorated with a scene of the Annunciation to Mary bearing an inscription, and a new jug from 2006 that replaced the earlier one worn thin ["Dåbsfadet af messing er noget yngre og menes at være fra omkring 1575. Det har et relief i bunden forestillende Marias bebudelse I randen af fadet står englen Gabriels ord: ”Hil være dig Maria, kyske jomfru.” Helligånden er symboliseret ved en due. Dåbskanden er fra 2006 og afløste en kande af messing, der var tyndslidt."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.812697, 9.0218

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 48′ 45.71″ N, 9° 1′ 18.48″ E

UTM: 32V 501331 6296537

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941