Valamar Blog

The island of Krk, unique for many things, seizes our attention with its exceptionally rich history, culture and natural beauties. It presents a harmonious entity with its particularities which single it out from the area it is located in and due which it is sometimes called a continent. We will try to present a part of that wealth and diversity with the story of the Baska Tablet. A stone tablet with a glagolitic text was found by the Jurandvor theologian in 1851 on the grounds of the former Benedictine St. Lucy’ Church. It was laid down in the church like a gravestone over which the believers passed, what caused significant damage.

This is one of the oldest inscriptions in Croatian language which made the small Krk village Jurandvor famous by turning it into an icon of Croatian culture and literacy. The text witnesses the King Zvonimir’s deed of donation to the Benedictine monastery. The tablet was supposedly carried out into the church backyard and the shepherds used it to keep up fire. Later on it was returned to the church and placed on the spot where it was found and it finished its “journey” in 1934 on an honorary position on the entrance into the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. We hope that we have enriched your knowledge and that you will come to the island of Krk and discover its natural and cultural beauties yourselves.