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Photo: Reinsfelt, Anne-Lise / Norsk Folkemuseum
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Photo: Harriss, Haakon Michael / Norsk Folkemuseum
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Photo: Harriss, Haakon Michael / Norsk Folkemuseum
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Photo: Harriss, Haakon Michael / Norsk Folkemuseum
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Photo: Norsk Folkemuseum
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Photo: Norsk Folkemuseum
2 comments
we live in Canada & have a spoon almost identical to this,
Ours has the lock on the folding handle. we were told by antique appraisers, that it was most likely carried by a Priest to administer Last Rights to the dying. Does the engraving translate " Remember We Shall Die" ?
R. Coleman, May 1, 2012
Yes, that is correct, the phrase engraved on spoon NF.1980-0045 is Memento mori, a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die".
Ufortunately we have little further information concerning the spoon.
Hanne Simonsen, May 3, 2012
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