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NORWAY
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Above are the names of the provinces [counties] known in Norway during the time of the Vikings.
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Royal Wagon found in a Viking Grave of Oseberg |
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General Map with Norway Map
#2 Holmenkollen Park Hotel, Rica, Oslo, Norway |
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Below: Norway- In -A -Nutshell, An Adventure near Bergen - 1990 |
Bergen Area |
Train at Myrdal which took us to Flam on the edge of Aurlandsfjorden [fjord] in the valley. The train took us passed thundering falls and al all times there was a panorma of unique beauatiful scenery. |
Kjosfossen Falls |
Met Terry Plant who wrote Nordic Journeys on the train to Flam. The fjord known as Aurlandsfjorden is the arm of Songnefjord, the longest fjord in Norway. The peaks rose 4,000 feet above us. The depth of the fjord is as deep as the peaks are high.
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Troll and Garry at Flam |
Undreal Village - 700 Year old church is seen here at far right. There were 700 known stave churches, now, only 204 still stand. They were built entirely of wood and it's remarkable that even this number has survived for there has been many snow storms since the medieval times when they were created. These forms resemble stave churchs in Russia, Bohemia, Hungary and Germany. This architecture is often credited to the Orient. Many painters are intoxicated with the old Norwegian pigmentation and fill their canvases with colors, mirror images reflected in the deep cold waters and the ornaments found in the village cottages as well as the intense moods of the seasons.
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Naeroyfjord is a fjord by Songenfjord near Bergen
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"There are fjords accessible by boat, and others fjords discovered only by the eider duck and the eagle. There are fjords whose walls are treeless precipices and others where the forest slopes from crest to coast. There are fjords whose floors are broken platforms of stone, and still others which widen into harbours or shelves back into terraces or flatten into pastures." [p. 22] Norway by Agnes Rothery |
View from Stalheim from which we see the Naeroy valley far far down below. |
Voss Stave Church built in 1277. Near by is St. Olav's Cross placed there in 1023 |
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Bergen |
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The old German Quay, [Tyskebryggen] warehouses were rebuilt after a fire in 1702. Care was taken in rebuilding it as it was before the fire which was the third time and third fire since 1070.
"These blocks are penetrated by alleys of medieval narrowness, darkened by crazy roofs, eaves at all angles, and overhanging wooden galleries. Doors open into small dark cubbyholes, where women are cleaning fish and men are bailing papers and all of them, judging from the smell,, doing something with fish oil. Other stairs lead up to other cubby-holes, doubtless as dark and malodorous. Some of the wall are supported with solid wooden ribs, like a ship.," wrote Agnes Rothery in the book titled NORWAY [p. 152]. |
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Bergen Area Enlarged
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King Haakon IV's Hall |
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Haakon's HallHistory:
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The rudder of an average Viking ship was about this size. Garry Hubert stands six feet four inches tall. |
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Photographs are from the collection of Garry and Judy A. Hubert taken on trip to Norway in 1990 |
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