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examples from the Orient and the Oceident (e. g. figg. 3—11). It 
is worth notice that Fystein, the archbishop of Trondhjem, was 
living in the neighbourhood when the Temple of London was erected. 
He ought to have seen some of the round churches built by the 
knights of St. John and probably also the Corona of Canterbury. 
From these buildings he may have borrowed the idea to construct 
a centralised martyrion over the tomb of St. Olav, but the com- 
bination with the choir of the cathedral is totally original and pro- 
duces aå surprising artistic effect. 
Å happy solution has been found also of the difficult problem 
to give the octogon martyrion the appearance of being an organice 
part of the church, especially when seen from the interior of the 
choir. The straight Fast wall of the choir has been constructed 
first in *early English” and after the fire in 1328 as aå richly 
decorated sereen (fig. 17), and the octogon part thus appears as an 
apsis 'of the choir and in some degree recalls the termination of 
the choir in the French cathedrals, though essentially different. 
The idea of this peculiar arrangement in Trondhjem is certainly 
not derived from the arrangement of the screen in English cathe- 
drals, but among English village churches wee sometimes meet with 
a construction that is much like it. Speceimens are illustrated figg. 
14—16. In this type of small English churches the architect of 
Trondhjem must have found the idea of the screen-like wall, broken 
by lofty arches and richly decorated; the motive has proved to be 
of prominent artistic effect when executed on the larger scale. The 
wall appears as the most precious part of the rich choir, and its 
arehes open into the darker and mysterious sanctuary where the 
body of the Saint King rested in åa costly shrine upon the altar. 
