https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/f43aec8e7f8a04a05d7aa7a175fab408.png d37b9cfcb17ad641122f54658d648d1f Site Represents a site. Prim Media 174 Wiki A link to a wiki entry about this item. https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/wiki/index.php/Skriðuklaustur_Monastery Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Condition 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Skriðuklaustur Monastery Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived reconstructions Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource eulac3d Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 151 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,65.039660,-14.950558; Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 23/12/2020 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Description An account of the resource Skriðuklaustur was the last Catholic monastery to be founded in Iceland before the Reformation. In June 1500 the farm of Skriða (in the valley of Fljótsdalur in eastern Iceland) was given to a community of Augustinian canons. However, there had already been religious activity on the site for some years before the official grant. According to local legend, a fifteenth-century priest was going to visit a dying man in the valley of Fljótsdalur when he realised he had lost the bread and wine needed for the sacrament. A boy was sent out to look and miraculously found a full chalice of wine, and a paten holding the bread, standing on the grass by the farm at Skriða. A chapel was built on the site where the bread and wine were found. Later, the Augustinians located their church in the same place. During the mid-sixteenth century religious change was imposed on Iceland by Christian III of Denmark. The Danish government forcibly introduced Protestantism, and in 1554 the monastery at Skriðuklaustur was closed and the lands given to a Lutheran pastor. The buildings occupied by the Augustinians fell into ruins, although the church continued in use for some generations. The site was eventually deconsecrated in 1792. In the early twentieth century the writer Gunnar Gunnarsson bought Skriðuklaustur and built a house not far from the monastic remains. Both the monastic site and the house are now part of a cultural institute which is open to the public. Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Skriðuklaustur Monastery Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT