Norway Tour ?? Day 18
Norway and its stave churches. There are a few here. Even a few that are probably from the 12th century. Okay, with vigorous restorations in the 17th and 18th and of course the 21st century. Unfortunately, they're all closed because, as you'd expect: off-season. There are the big ones and the small ones. There are the ones that are called (now I have to look them up for a moment) single-mast stave churches. These are the ones where the steeple is simply in the middle of the building. The nave is square and the choir is very small. Few and very small windows. The windows of most of the churches here are covered from the inside, I guess to protect the murals from light. They are beautifully decorated.
The churches here are covered with (mostly) tarred wooden shingles and "guarded" from the outside with at least two cameras. Whether as a fire watch or control, we don't know.
What strikes me here is that the cemeteries are always around the church. So no matter how you approach the church, you walk through the cemetery. The gravestones or crosses seem to be spread out wildly, there are no straight paths as I know it from Germany. Somehow, everything here makes a loving, almost life-and-death-together impression. Not so much a dark one.
But maybe that's also due to the sun we've found again, our holiday mood, the joy of travelling together with the best man in the world, or simply life, which I'm finding quite magical once again right now.
#dankbar #stabkirke #stavkirke #uvdal #nore #numedal
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Where. Here: Nore Stavkirke
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