The crypt of Lund Cathedral with the Giant Finn embracing one of
the columns

though it has, of course, been altered and repaired several
times since its erection. Built by Canute the Holy, it was
designed after the Romanesque temples of the Rhine district.
It was thoroughly repaired in the beginning of the sixteenth
century under the supervision of the Westphalian master-
builder, Adam van Düren, and during the nineteenth cen-
tury it was subjected to a crude restoration. The choir is
adorned with richly carved Gothic stalls, executed about the
year 1400. The magnificent crypt, resting on columns with
square capitals, extends beneath the chancel and transept.
The oldest sculpture of the cathedral is the so-called Giant
Finn, who embraces one of the columns of the crypt. It is
considered by many to represent Samson. In the last decade
of the twelfth century, Gumlösa Church in Skåne, about
twenty kilometers northwest of Kristianstad was dedicated.
It was covered by a cross-vault, and was built of brick, with
the tower and the roof ornamented by corbie-step gables.
These latter, which were added subsequently, constitute,
naturally enough, a characteristic of brick architecture, and
are often found on the church buildings that rise on the

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