Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910)
Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915 · London : G. Allen & Sons · leaf 58
Fig. 16.—Sanctuary Ring, Durham over all from head to tail. It was once fixed over Sta. Sophiaor one of the gates of the Palace of Bucoleon at Constantinople,and was brought home by some returning Brugeois, to whomBaldwin IX, had given it in 1204. It is said that originallyit belonged to a Viking… … Fig. 17.—Head, Le Puy by whom it was presented to the Emperor, and by his ordersfixed over the church. The truth of the legend has beendenied, but it had this much in its favour, that the dragonhas a much more Scandinavian than Byzantine appearance.Charlemagne had also placed a vane over his church…
