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Rh Bk. V. Ch. I. ROUND CHURCHES. 113 Christian faith than afterwards. In the richer and more populous South they were superseded, as has above been pointed out, by basilicas of more extended dimensions, into which they a ere frequently ab- sorbed. In the poorer North they have sufhced for the scant popula- tion and remained unchanged. Mr. Marryat enumerates eight examples in Denniark,i and there are at least as many, if not more, in Sweden. All are of the Teutonic type — naves Avith small apses — as contradistinguished from the French or Celtic form, where the circular part became the choir to which the nave was added afterwards. 556. Round Church of Oster Lars, Bornhohn. (From Mar;-yat's " Jutland and the Danish Isles.") That at Thorsager, in Jutland, though not one of the oldest, may be taken as a type of its class, and its arrangement and a])pearance Avill be understood from the annexed plan, section, and view (Woodcuts Nos. 554 and 555). The building is not large; the diameter of the circle internally being only 40 feet., and the floor encumbered by four great pillars ; the total length over all is 90 ft. Originally it seems to have been intended as a two-storied church, the vault being omitted over the central compartment, as was the case in the Holy Anders Church at Wisby (Woodcut No. 550). This circumstance would account for its peculiarities much more satisfactorily than the theory that it was fortified, of which no trace appears in its general » Two in Zealand — Storehedinge and Biernede ; one in Funen — Home, at Faaborg; one in .Jutland — Tliorsager; VOL. II. — S and four in Bornholm — Oster Lars, Nykers, 01s, and Ny. — Vol. ii. p. 49.