Lower chapel                                                                                                        "Skipper Clement with grandsons Kent and Elroy          
photo Elroy Christenson 2016

The lower chapel of the church is probably much older than the upper part.   The roof is still lead after the original design.  The bells in the belfry ring regularly using an electrically times mechanism.  "Skipper Clement", the leader of the peasant revolt against Christian III and his father was put down brutally in the nearby town of Aalborg.  Although Clement escaped injured he was later given up by a local farmer then imprisoned for over a year to be finally beheaded in front of this Viborg Cathedral.  My cousin and I are related through his daughter and stand her at his statue as his grandsons.  The statue is in Aaborg.

source:

Christenson, Elroy. photos 1985 and 2016
Jones, Gwyn. A History of the Vikings. revise ed. 1907, Oxford University Press. London 1984
wikipedia.org

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