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The Forn
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This article presents some of the earliest rock artdocumentation known from northern Europe.Johannes Haquini Rhezelius produced it on anantiquarian journey to Öland and Småland in1634. Compared with the Norwegian Peder Alfsøn’sdocumentation from seven years previouslyin northern Bohuslän, then a part of Norway,there are differences and similarities. Both mendrew by eye with ink, Alfsøn then embellishinghis images with watercolours. Neither used anyscalemeasurements.Rhezelius's informants did not seem to preserveany pre-Christian ideas about figurativerock art. They associated it with legends and storiessprung fromaChristian culture;with giants,maidens and church-burglars. Folklore associatedcupmarks with elfs.
Uppsala University
Title: The Forn
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This article presents some of the earliest rock artdocumentation known from northern Europe.
Johannes Haquini Rhezelius produced it on anantiquarian journey to Öland and Småland in1634.
Compared with the Norwegian Peder Alfsøn’sdocumentation from seven years previouslyin northern Bohuslän, then a part of Norway,there are differences and similarities.
Both mendrew by eye with ink, Alfsøn then embellishinghis images with watercolours.
Neither used anyscalemeasurements.
Rhezelius's informants did not seem to preserveany pre-Christian ideas about figurativerock art.
They associated it with legends and storiessprung fromaChristian culture;with giants,maidens and church-burglars.
Folklore associatedcupmarks with elfs.
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