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Skráseting av føroyskum miðaldar kirkjugripum
bells (19); crucifixes (10); processional cross (1); illumination implements,
candlesticks (8); madonnas (4); censer (1); soapstone baptismal fonts (9);
wooden images (8); pew-ends (21); holy water fonts (3). Certain bronze
objects from archeological investigations have not yet been studieđ in
detail, and thus only their places of discovery are given.
However, a short account is given of the circumstances of the dis-
covery of objects from the old votive church in Vágur5, Suðuroy, dis-
mantled in 1940—41, where under the floor was found: a silver chalice
(Fig. 1); 3 pew-ends (Fig. 2); a tuff candlestick (Fig. 4); and a presumed
holy water font fashioned from a shore-washed boulder (Fig. 4).
In addition, an account is given of the hitherto uncompleted investi-
gation of the medieval chapel on Mykines (Fig. 5), where among the
objects found are a basalt candlestick (Fig. 6 and 7) and a bronze candle
snuffer (vide: 33 — Fms: 4000/2).
After the Reformation, a number of churches, especially srnall churches
and chapels, were dismantled, the total then becoming 39. This investigation
shows that in 29 of these there had certainly been medieval material, and
that, in addition, there have been medieval artifacts recovered from 5
chapels or chapel ruins.
This accounts for 34 of the medieval churches. However, evidence of
the foundations of buildings traditionally identified as chapels suggests
that there were several more in this period.
ÓPRENTAÐAR HEIMILDIR
I Føroya Fornminnissavn. Gripaskráin.
II Føroya Landsbókasavn. Føroyadeildin.
III Føroya Landsskjalasavn. Roknskaparskjøl 1870.
IV Landsarkivaret for Sjælland. Bispearkivet. Indk. Sager, Færøerne 1729
»Siuns-Forretning ofver alle Færøers Kircker«, sum Clemend Jenssøn
Færøe, prestur (1706—1766) skrivaði 1729.
V Nationalmuseet, 2. afdeling. København. Antikvarisk-Topografisk Ar-
kiv.
VI Tage E. Christensen, magistari: frásøgn í privatbrævi, dags. 19.1.1951,
sum eg takki honum fyri, eins og eg eri honum og Niels-Knud Lieh-
gott, museumsinspektøri, takksamur fyri vinsamligt hjálpsemi við
kanningum av føroyskum gripum á Nationalmuseet í Keypmanna-
havn.
VII Hakon Christie, arkitekti, takki eg fyri mikilsverdu frásøguna.