Re: Vatican documents known by scholars.

From: Göran Bäärnhielm (goran.baarnhielm_at_home.se)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:27:22 +0200

Fridrik Skulason wrote:
> Doug Weller <dweller@ramtops.thisremove.co.uk> wrote in message news:<t9udbi15ro7z.1fv33bopx20ui.dlg@40tude.net>...
>
>>This bowl is from the church at Oddi in Iceland, and is preserved in the
>>National Museum in Reykjavik.
>
>
> OK, I did check. The museum is closed for renovations, but they did
> have some limited information on the item. It is believed to date
> from around 1500, but its exact origin is unknown. It came to the
> museum from the church at Oddi, and will be put on display once the
> museum re-opens.
>
> -frisk

Thanks much for taking the trouble! Hopefully they will do some research
on how common those things were; the dating would seem to prevent it,
but otherwise one might be tempted to put together a story on how the
*very same bowl* which was sent in 1327 from Skara diocese to Avignon
finally landed in Iceland ;-)
Göran Bäärnhielm, Stockholm, Sweden
goran.baarnhielm@home.se

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