The church was also left untouched, but now with 2.5 kilometers to the closest village, Vrinners, where a, over the years, still bigger part of the congregation lived.

[1] Today a distance of 2.5 kilometers between Vrinners and the church by the cape might not seem as much, but at that time transport was by foot or horse.

Not least for elderly people, who sought to go to church every Sunday, as was often the norm in those times, a 5 kilometer walk across the wind exposed hills close to the sea in all kinds of weather, back and forth, could be a long way.

[3] Holters granite baptismal fonts are often made with a thick chiseled rope circling the basin holding the holy water.

[4] The purpose of this ornamentation is based on the belief that the graphic magic of the unbroken band of rope prevents evil spirits crossing the rope and entering the holy water in the inner basin gaining access to the little child, according to the priest in Hammelev, Jette Seidelin Christensen.

At Hammelev Church, on the northern part of the Djursland peninsula, 5 kilometers north of the town Grenå, there is also a Holter baptismal font.

Hammelev Church is built of limestone, and there is lots of middle age graffiti in the outer walls of the nearly 1000 year old masonry.

This is also seen with the unbroken twisted circular band of rope surrounding the Holter baptismal fonts at the Rolsø- and Hammelev churches.

[4] Rope circles like these are also found on other middle age baptismal fonts made by Holter, seen in churches on Djursland, and maybe also in other parts of Denmark.

[4] These middle age artifacts were crafted in times when evil spirits and witches were something one believed in literally, and to such a degree, that the superstition gave way to the burning of women alive, if these people became suspected of practicing witchery.