#LCI arrêtez de faire chier #philipebrun moi qui suit #socialocommuniste je demande un peu de stabilité à l'#Assemblée il faut qu'on arrête de passer d'un #1erministre à un autre vous rendez-vous compte de ce que nous vivons nous les français? combien ont envie de retourner aux #urnes quand je vois #RenaudGirard jouer au redresseur de tort ça me met hors de moi

Some of the Norwegian stave churches seem kind of … just like any wooden building. Like Urnes.
Until you see its decor.

A couple of years ago I was driving around Lusterfjorden, early September and just looking at a landscape I didnt really know. And suddenly, as it happens, I saw a sign to Ornes. It reminded me of something, I just couldn’t place it. So, I drove on and ended up at a ferry quay. The sky was blue, the water green, the trees in all colurs of autumn, and in the distance I saw a peninsula and maybe a … really, could this be Urnes, the most famous of all the Norwegian stave churches?

Being late in season I had to do a longer hike while waiting for the not-so-frequent ferry to the other side of the fjord. I was totally alone. Everything was closed, the cafe, the toilets, the tourist information, the church itself - it was just me and this UNESCO monument.

Urnes is the oldest of the stave churches we have left in Norway, approx. 1130, and it might be an even older church beneath it.
Urnes has given name to its own decorative style, and, yes, there are dragons. I am not sure if this is keeping Christ awake at night.
The style is found in Denmark, the British islands and Ireland.

I still have this happy/hot/excited/unbelivable feeling inside me thinking back at this day.
Taking the ferry back I shared it with farmers and their apples. This is The Apple Country of Norway.

#ornes
#urnes
#vestlandet
#norge
#norway
#stavkyrkje
#UNESCO
#arkitektur
#architecture
#bygning
#kirke
#church
#landscape
#lusterfjorden
#skjolden

Wood is the Nordic language

"Creatures of Old", inspired by the "Urnes creature" carved on Urnes Stavkyrkje (stavechurch), Norway.

#drawing #pencil #charcoal #paper #acidfree #fantasy #creature #horse #urnes #woodcarving #art #stavechurch #stavkyrkje #norway

"Creatures of Old", inspired by the "Urnes creature" carved on Urnes Stavkyrkje (stavechurch), Norway.

#drawing #pencil #charcoal #paper #acidfree #fantasy #creature #horse #urnes #woodcarving #art #stavechurch #stavkyrkje #norway

⚡️🇫🇷FLASH - SMIC à 1600€, conférence sociale sur les salaires, abrogation de la réforme des retraites… : la droite et les grands patrons contre les #urnes ? La macronie, l’extrême droite, le Medef et LR refusent un gouvernement de gauche, même sans ministres LFI. (déclarations)

L’église de Urnes, plus vieille église viking de Norvège
https://www.2tout2rien.fr/eglise-de-urnes-plus-vieille-eglise-viking-norvege/
#bois #ConteDeFee #eglise #norvege #RecordDuMonde #Sculpture #stavkirke #Urnes #vidéo #viking

LA TERRIFIANTE PROGRESSION DE L’EXTRÊME DROITE AU DELÀ DES URNES

https://video.blast-info.fr/w/1361nhVfnoih2TL8PAYAuV

Inktober day 4. Another in my endless series of wormish experiments. Knotwork and tangled Urnes/norse-ish design stuff is relaxing to me. One of these days I’m gonna hafta start getting into doing this stuff in something sturdier than paper. #inktober2023 #inktober #dragon #urnes

Urnes stavkyrkje, III. Norway, November 2022 #aowsimages #norway #scandinavia #church #stavkyrkje #urnes #photography #blackandwhitephotography