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The Wooden Calendar - Tradition and popular belief

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Brynjulf Alver
The old Norwegian farmers’ calendar, the wooden calendar staff, follows the Norse system of reckoning time, and divides the year into a summer half, a...

The Chapel and the Layman’s Movement

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Karl Egil Johansen
Den kristelege lekmannsrørsla, den frilynde norskdomsrørsla og den politiske sosialradikalismen er ideologiske motpolar, men kulturelt og politisk er ...

Mariakirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Apart from the king’s estate at Holmen, Håkonshallen and the lower floors of the Rosenkrantz tower, the three parish churches in the centre of Bergen ...

Møvik

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe
In the winter of 1849 the impoverished Fjell municipality was forced to put money into new burial places at Møvik and Bildøydalen, because of the ragi...

Lyse chapel

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
The small white-painted chapel with the red brick tiled roof just south of the monastery ruins at Lyse was built in 1663 as a local chapel for the mon...

Fantoft Stave Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
When a new church was to be built at Fortun in Sogn in 1883, the old stave church was in danger of being demolished. During the years after J.C.Dahl t...

Holdhus church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anne Marta Hoff
The old church at Holdhus is one of the oldest timbered churches left in the west of Norway. The new church at Eide, built in 1889, replaced the churc...

The Church and the Monastery

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Hans Emil Lidén
THE MOVING FORCE IN LOCAL SOCIETY “I recall the church’s exterior, the black tar-clad timber walls with the black pan tiles; I remember it made a glo...

Ænes

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
Ænes has been one of the prosperous farms at the Mauranger Fjord in medieval times. At the time of Harald Gilles, around 1130, we hear of GAUT at Ænes...

Herdla Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
A letter from the Pope Eugenius 3 in 1146 mentions St. Nikolaus church at Herdla. This church belonged under Munkeliv monastery, which was founded in ...

Moster - The old church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
Moster is mentioned as a church site already in the time of Olav Tryggvason. According to the sagas the king is supposed to have laid the foundations ...

Vangskyrkja

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidé
Vangskyrkja (Vangen church) is the largest of the medieval churches in Hordaland; one of the four “fjordung” churches in the county. A royal letter fr...

Hosanger church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
On Christmas Day 1795, at 5 a.m., the lightning struck the church in Hosanger. After three hours, the timbered church from the 1600s, which had replac...

Domkirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Kinsarvik church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Peter Helland-Hansen
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
By all accounts the church in Kinsarvik must have been one of the four main churches in the old Horda County. The stone church standing today was rest...

Ullensvang church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Ullensvang church, situated beside the vicarage, in idyllic surroundings on the headland just inside Lofthus municipality, is mentioned for the first ...

Ådland

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Ådland, innermost in the Samnanger Fjord is an old church centre and transport centre; a nodal point in the transport from sea to land. The white pain...

Kyrkjebyrkjeland

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Gjerde church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

Klosteret

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik