Posted: Mon 30 May, 2011 10:28 pm
Curious reference to an image on the Leeds Parish Church is an Anglo-Scandinavian stone cross from the 9th or 10th century AD.It is decorated with a variety of designs. Some are abstract patterns. Others are carvings of saints. The strangest of all and, to modern minds at least, the most out of place is a carving of a man in a flying machine. This is the Scandinavian hero Wayland. He was a smith and master craftsman. At one point in his career he was imprisoned on an island and forced to make precious item for his captors. In order to escape Wayland built a flying machine to soar over the water to freedom. It is this incident which is depicted on the Leeds cross. Ref:http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 5507Anyone got a photo of this?