Urnesn.
/ɔːrˈnɛs//əːˈnɛs/ Used attributively (after H. Shetelig 1909, in Norske Aarsberetning 75) to designate a style of late Viking art, characterized by the use of animal motifs and complex interlace as ornament. Cf. Ringerike n.
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1930 T. D. Kendrick Hist. Vikings 30 The Jellinge style, still with its ‘great Beast’, can be recognized in such lovely and fantastic things as the wood-carvings of about A.D. 1080 that adorn the outside and inside of the Urnes mast-church.., and this beautiful ‘Urnes’ phase is represented here in miniature by a small ornament in openwork bronze from Norway.
1940 H. Shetelig Viking Antiquities Great Brit. & Irel. IV. 58 Round bronze trinket, brightly gilt, with open work animal ornamentation. The design is characteristic of the Urnes style of the late 11th century.
1952 D. T. Rice Eng. Art 871–1100 ii. 44 Other examples of the Ringerike style in England are quite numerous, as are those of the next phase of Norse art, the Urnes style.
1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iv. i. 335 The last indigenous flowering of viking art, the Urnes style, achieved its final triumphs not at home but in England and Ireland.
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