The apostle on this bench end may be St. Jude, whose emblem was a club , according to tradition he was killed by a blow from a club, as suggested my Daniel Bruun and Tage. E. Christiansen. However Martin Blindheim suggest that it might be the apostle James the Less “with this symbol a beetle fashioned as a club”. St. James the less is said to have been martyred by stoning but as he did not die immediatelym he was finally killed by a blow from a fuller’s club. Blindheim bases his suppostition on the fact that in medieval art such club often comes to resebmle an ordinary club. The top panel if the bench end os decorated with an ogical quatrefoil cross based on a series og narrow, straight-edged bands. The cross, which is formed over the inersection between identical circles, extends between four semicircularloops in the ciruclar top panel. Three circles of similar bands are woven into the cross.
Dimension: 135 x 42 x 5.4 cm.
Created by Petur Hansen, using Artec Eva scanner and Artec Studio 16.
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