This article continues the discussion on the group of problems which Dr. Helge Kjellin, formerly Professor at the University of Dorpat, successfully presented in his monograph on the Church at Karris. The sculptures that adorn the impost mouldings of the Triumphal Arch at Karris, on the isle of Osel, have in the opinion of the author been executed by the same Gotland artist who created the little south porch at Kallunge, Gotland, the corbelstones at Gardslosa, Oland, and the two caryatid figures on the inner side of the south porch of Uppsala Cathedral. He must have been one of those artists who, according to the well-known custom prevalent in early Mediaeval Scandinavia, performed the functions of both architect and sculptor in stone. Probably other works in Gotland may also be attributed to “The Master of Karris Church”, whose activities seem to have been at their height during the approximate period 1330-1360.
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