ABSTRACT
Foundations of a wooden church under the floor of a stone church, which originally had a Westwerk with two towers, similar to that of Gandersheim, confirm that an early construction from the first half of the eleventh century was replaced by the stone church. During the eleventh century, before the clear distinction between secular and regular canons had been more or less forced upon the 'canonical movement' by the highest church authorities, even the secular canons referred to St Augustine as a spiritual guarantee for the old tradition of this movement. Whereas Jutland is a 'neighbour' to the British Isles, this can certainly not be said about Scania, the eastern extreme of the lands settled by the Danes. Scania stands out as one of the areas of maritime North-Western Europe that was most crucial to the spread of monasticism. Swein Forkbeard, who died in 1014, had defeated and occupied England.
