From the medieval wooden stave churches to a modern take on cathedrals, Norway is packed with fascinating churches and cathedrals. Many are open to tourists.
Norwegian stave churches are a mix of fairy tale and gothic novel. They are striking and menacing, but beautiful.
These austere churches mix Nordic dragons with Christian saints.
These 28 stunning stave churches are dotted across Norway's countryside. They are great examples of stave architecture, and a very visual reminder of Norway's slow transition to Christianity.
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These 28 stunning stave churches are dotted across Norway's countryside. They are great examples of stave architecture, and a very visual reminder of Norway's slow transition to Christianity.
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Defense magic & ghost thresholds in stave churches!⛪️ In Scandinavia, stave churches were built during the transition from pagan religion to Christianity, especially in the 12th & 13th centuries, so there are still many pagan elements here. (1/3)
Dating back to Medieval days, the Borgund Stave Church stands as an important piece of Norwegian history and culture, which is worth a visit.
HANDMADE, STAINED & DETAILED This is an exact reproduction of the original 11 century carving on front entrance of the Urnes Stave Church in Norway. Approximately 8 x 10 carved, burned, detailed, stained and sealed from a piece of split log planed in our shop to about 1/2 inch with the bark remaining on the edges. Wood may slightly vary in size and shape, each piece of wood is different with it's own unique features. About: Urnes Stave Church is one of Norway’s oldest stave churches. It is architecturally, culturally and historically unique because of its extremely detailed wood carving work and the extensive interior ornamentation. The church was built in the 1130s, but some of the ornamentation stems from an earlier church. The oldest dated logs in Urnes church had already begun to grow in 765. The carvings on the church lend insight to the cosmology of medieval Scandinavian Christians, who combined Norse and Christian mythology. The most notable and mysterious carving in the church is a snake-like creature being eaten by a four-footed animal. Christian scholars assert that this is a battle between Satan and Christ, each representing evil and good, respectively. Norse mythologists claim it is a representation of the end of the world, with the dragon Níðhöggr consuming the roots of the world tree. During the early years of Christianity, particularly the 11 th century, there was a dramatic rise in church building due to the newly Christian leaders. But despite the new religion, the architects of the churches clung to the familiar. Though their attention to verticality was likely borrowed from early Romanesque influences in Britain, the Norse architects looked first to the pagan worship buildings called heathen hofs for the choice of post and lintel construction, and then to their powerful shipbuilding enterprise for the incorporation of dragon heads. Such images would have been familiar for worshippers of the new religion, and undoubtedly a comforting sight to the Scandinavians about to embark on a new Christian journey. The entrance of the church depicted in this carving blends Norse mythology with the new Christian stories, as followers would have recognized Níðhöggr as the pagan creature which gnawed on one of the roots of the Yggdrasil until the coming of Ragnarök, and as a metaphor for the serpent in the Garden of Eden. There are varying beliefs about the type of animal represented. While it appears to have four legs, depictions of Níðhöggr in medieval Icelandic texts tend to depict the serpent with fore and hind legs, like a combination of a deer and a snake, so it is likely that Níðhöggr is at least hinted at here. By depicting an animal from Hel steadily making his way through the root, the steady conquest of Christianity over paganism is evident. That the World Tree survives Níðhöggr's destructive endeavors would have been a powerful message of the new faith; such a depiction here—at the threshold of Christ's door—would have created a moment of physical acceptance of the new religion.
Norway is in danger of losing the tools and expertise needed to preserve its historic wooden churches. Hundreds of years ago, more than 1,000 stave churches stood in small communities across Norway. Today, just 28
Cross posted from Monstrous Beauty Before the invention of the codex, that is, a book made of leaves bound on one side, books were mostly on scrolls, and the predominate material for scrolls was papyrus. Papyrus was a paper like material made from a plant that grew in the Nile Delta. Greeks and Romans used papyrus as well as Egyptians, but because papyrus did not survive well in moist environments, the vast majority of papyrus survive has been found in Egypt. Because a scroll was continually rolled and unrolled, thick pigments would quickly flake off, so papyrus scrolls were not decorated or illustrated in the manner of later manuscripts, with lavish colored decorations. Scientific and mathematical texts required illustration, while illustration was optional for literary texts. Both types of texts did have illustrations though, and in a similar style, called by Kurt Weitzman called the "papyrus style". In the papyrus style, small, quickly drawn, ink illustrations would be inserted into gaps in the text block. The were seldom colored and usually had little if any background or framing. Few examples of illustrated papyri remain, and thoe only in fragments. One example is the so-called Heracles Papyrus. It consists of two columns of text which have three quick sketches of Heracles fighting the The Nemean lion. The iconography of the sketches is fairly conventional, compare the second sketch with this roughly contemporary mosaic from Spain. Not all works on Papyrus were quick, rough sketches. The Charioteer Papyrus (pictured at top) is a fragment containing a finely drawn colored illustration of six chariot charioteers. There is no text on the fragment, so it is not known what work it illustrated. Indeed it cannot be said with certainty is came from a scroll or an codex. The Papyrus style was carried over into early codices, although it was eventually abandoned because of the new opportunities provided by the new format
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From the medieval wooden stave churches to a modern take on cathedrals, Norway is packed with fascinating churches and cathedrals. Many are open to tourists.
Norway is in danger of losing the tools and expertise needed to preserve its historic wooden churches. Hundreds of years ago, more than 1,000 stave churches stood in small communities across Norway. Today, just 28
From the medieval wooden stave churches to a modern take on cathedrals, Norway is packed with fascinating churches and cathedrals. Many are open to tourists.
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