What bird do you think that is? To me it looks like a peacock. I'm not sure they'd have many peacocks in the north though so I wonder if it's something that was brought back from Rome or Greece? In Christianity it's also a popular symbol. Very beautiful work either way, I like that you talk through and show how you did the reconstruction.
It’s probably more likely that it’s an eagle or another kind of bird of prey than a peacock. The Cammin and Bamberg shrines have somewhat similar bird designs also featuring the head-crests and wide fanned tails, and they depict/symbolise the eagle representing the evangelist John. Birds of prey were also an essential motif in Nordic art all the way back to the migration period and the beginning of Nordic Animal-ornament. Eagles and birds of prey are commonly associated with Odin, aristocracy and war, and also has mythological and spiritual meaning as birds could transverse the boundaries of the worlds and often play an important role in the mythology and sagas (Gods and Jotnar shape-shift into birds frequently). The spiritual connotations of birds in Nordic mythology could also easily carry into Christianity with the holy spirit represented as a dove for example.
@@jonaslaumarkussen6045 Thank you for the clarification, that was very informative. That makes a lot of sense, it hadn't even crossed my mind about Saint John symbolically being depicted by a bird. I think I saw the part on the top of the birds head and mistook it for the feathers on the head of a peacock, but looking closer it can't be that because there's none of the iconic eye feathers in the plumage.
Seems like the tendril entangling the legs ought to have a logical origin. A serpent would certainly be consistent with other Urnes beasts. Maybe jesses as used in (at least modern) falconry?
All plausible. I haven't been lucky to find convincing evidence for what it could have been yet. Some four-legged beasts in Ringerike and Urnes style have their feet tied in knots. But I haven't seen examples of this in bird motifs though.
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What bird do you think that is? To me it looks like a peacock. I'm not sure they'd have many peacocks in the north though so I wonder if it's something that was brought back from Rome or Greece? In Christianity it's also a popular symbol. Very beautiful work either way, I like that you talk through and show how you did the reconstruction.
It’s probably more likely that it’s an eagle or another kind of bird of prey than a peacock. The Cammin and Bamberg shrines have somewhat similar bird designs also featuring the head-crests and wide fanned tails, and they depict/symbolise the eagle representing the evangelist John. Birds of prey were also an essential motif in Nordic art all the way back to the migration period and the beginning of Nordic Animal-ornament. Eagles and birds of prey are commonly associated with Odin, aristocracy and war, and also has mythological and spiritual meaning as birds could transverse the boundaries of the worlds and often play an important role in the mythology and sagas (Gods and Jotnar shape-shift into birds frequently). The spiritual connotations of birds in Nordic mythology could also easily carry into Christianity with the holy spirit represented as a dove for example.
@@jonaslaumarkussen6045 Thank you for the clarification, that was very informative. That makes a lot of sense, it hadn't even crossed my mind about Saint John symbolically being depicted by a bird. I think I saw the part on the top of the birds head and mistook it for the feathers on the head of a peacock, but looking closer it can't be that because there's none of the iconic eye feathers in the plumage.
Seems like the tendril entangling the legs ought to have a logical origin. A serpent would certainly be consistent with other Urnes beasts. Maybe jesses as used in (at least modern) falconry?
All plausible. I haven't been lucky to find convincing evidence for what it could have been yet. Some four-legged beasts in Ringerike and Urnes style have their feet tied in knots. But I haven't seen examples of this in bird motifs though.
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