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nature 140, 1090-1090 (25 December 1937) | doi:10.1038/1401090b0
Scandinavian Influence in Northumbrian Art
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SCANDINAVIAN influence, owing to the Norse occupation, left a deep-seated and long-persistent mark on the life and culture of northern England, which is especially to be noted in art motifs and decorative design at the close of the first and beginning of the second millennia of our era. An interesting and instructive example of this influence is to be seen in the crozier of Bishop Ranulf Flambard, who died in 1128, and whose tomb on the site of the Chapter House of Durham Cathedral was opened in 1878. With his body were found the remains of a pewter chalice, his sapphire ring and his pastoral staff.
