Fantoft Stavkirke

Fantoft stavkirke, built around 1150 in Fortun, Sogn, Norway, during the great era of wooden church construction in the 12th Century. By the 19th Century most communities were replacing their old stave churches with more modern, usually larger, structures, and by the end of the century most of the old buildings were gone. It is [...]

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På Fløyen

Here’s a picture from our visit to Norway in June 2001. Our week in Bergen came roughly in the middle of the trip. On 14 June it rained only a little bit, so we rode Fløibanen from the center of Bergen to the top of the mountain for the famous view from above the city. [...]

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