Up to the following weeks i'll be posting some of the photographs here my sister took during our Scandinavia-tour in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. I hope you enjoy them though many are of rather poor quality!
So check my gallery for updates!
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Somehow most of my last journal entry got deleted (is there a journal policy on DeviantArt? Or even a virus?)! A reason for you to rejoice, because you'll get Part V of my Scandinavia-tour!!! 
Here you are!!
PART V
Urnes or Ornes!
A must-have-seen when you travel to Norway!! A real pearl around the Sognefjord! It's a shame i don't have a diapositive-scanner, 'cause i've also photographs of Borgund, our camping sites and different landscapes with fjords, forests etc. Really, really a big shame! Would have liked to share them with you...
Here you are!!
PART V
Urnes or Ornes!
A must-have-seen when you travel to Norway!! A real pearl around the Sognefjord! It's a shame i don't have a diapositive-scanner, 'cause i've also photographs of Borgund, our camping sites and different landscapes with fjords, forests etc. Really, really a big shame! Would have liked to share them with you...
Now in this photo you see the famous Urnes carvings at the former entrance door, which also gave name to a special viking-age style. They're situated on the north side of the church and they belonged to the first (middle of the 11th century) of the three churches (up to 1130), which were built on the same site! So Urnes stave-church's the oldest still preserved stave-church in Norway.
The village, where we took the ferry (without car this time - much cheaper!), was very picturesque with its narrow streets, red houses, the petrol-green fjord around...And in Urnes we also had the chance to meet some people from Luxembourg, which is really an extraordinary thing, since the population of Luxembourg's only 480000 inhabitants! Made some fine pancakes that very evening - with lots of gnats inside, 'cause they got attracted by the sweet smell!! 
Yummi!!
Yummi!!Hopperstad stave-church! A last-minute rescue (as tells me the info sheet i received there). Why this was so, isn't written there...but you can imagine for yourself!
Hopperstad stave-church's got beautiful carvings, too!
And dragon heads on the roof!
Yay! Good Christians...yep, sure thing!
BUT...BLEH...WOA...
Just finished to read this passage in the info sheet:
They used to put aborted, premature and unchristened babys in a box and then push this box underneath the church's floorpanels. Even to present days [...].
Yay! Good Christians...yep, sure thing!
BUT...BLEH...WOA...
Just finished to read this passage in the info sheet:They used to put aborted, premature and unchristened babys in a box and then push this box underneath the church's floorpanels. Even to present days [...].
Oh my!!!
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Well, actually i wanted to add some pictures from Norwegian landscapes: fjords, dales and highlands. And of course the macabre thing, i've already anounced in the previous entry! So you still must keep patient about that...
COMING SOON!!!
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As you can see (and will see further), i'm very interested in the viking-age shipbuilding. The reason therefore:
- I'm a student in medieval history, in old German literature (and also old Norse) and in archeology (from the time of the early-history up to the Middle Ages)
- Last summer semester i attended an advanced seminar on shipbuilding from the Roman Empire to the late Middle Ages
So don't hesitate if you have questions about these matters! It would be a honor to help you!!
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