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SUMMARY
This article is a part of a yet unpublished longer work on the church and farm at Laufás in
Northern Iceland.
In 1866 the Reverend Björn Halldórsson at Laufás sent several items to the new National
Museum of Iceland in Reykjavík. Among those were "two carved door posts" (museum no.
Þjms. 395). The posts are equally long, 2.58 m, while other measurements are 32.5 x 7.8 cm
for one and 32.2 x 6.7 cm for the other.
These posts and their carvings have been studied by many scholars since then, from Sig-
urður Guðmundsson to Ellen Marie Mageroy.
There is evidence that the posts were used as door-posts at the church door on a turf
church built at Laufás in 1744, which was demolished in 1864. Before that they were in a timb-
er church built in 1631.
It is obvious from the carvings that the posts have initially been longer than they are now.
They have certainly belonged to an older building, a stave church.