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An early Norwegian lyre from Rsldal, Hordaland (Norway)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Graeme Lawson
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Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 205 , July 1978 , pp. 140 - 143
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1978

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References

* For the details of Gunnar’s story, see Nordland, Odd ‘Ormegarden’ in Viking 13 (1949).Google Scholar

† The stone font from Norum, Bohuslân, is preserved in the Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm; the carved wooden bench from Heddal, Telemark, is pre¬served in the Norsk Folkemuseum, Bygdoy, Oslo.

ǂ For a recent discussion of the iconography of Gunnar, see Anne Holtsmark and Martin Blindheim, Sigurds Saga i middelalderens billedkunst (Oslo Univer-sitetets Oldsaksamling 1973).

§ The exact archaeological and chronological signifi¬cance of the Kravik instrument (Fig. If) has yet to be determined: its remains are housed in the musical instrument collection of the Norsk Folkemuseum, Bygdey, Oslo.