Danish Cross Head at North
Frodingham.
Like the Angles, also, the heathen Northmen eventually became Christians, and evidences of their Christianity have come down to us. In the vicarage garden at North Frodingham is a broken cross head of Danish tenth-century workmanship, and in the churchyard at Nunburnholme is preserved a broken cross shaft sculptured with figures of men, women, children, and animals.
But the most interesting relic of Danish Christianity is a sun-dial now built high up in one of the interior walls of the church at Aldbrough. Round it, in Anglian letters, is the inscription:—
ULF LET ARÆRAN CYRICE FOR HANUM AND
GUNWARA SAULA.
Put into modern English this would read:—
Ulf caused to be built a church for himself and for
the soul of Gunvör.
