Some years ago I moved from Bergen to Oslo, from the western part of Norway to the eastern. I had to move my stuff in winter, and it was a lot of snow. I had visited Borgund stave church at summertime, but never in winter, and as I passed it I saw the possibility to visit it. Me and a lonely motorcyclist (!). I hope he too enjoyed it as much as I did.
Most Norwegian stave churches are in the south and usully by a fjord or inland, somewhere high up in the mountains. Usually in a small villiage who either couldn’t afford a new church or actually thought it worth saving. While they build a larger, warmer church next to it. At some point there was a law requiring that a church should seat at least 30 people, many stave churches couldn’t apply to that and they become obsolete. So, that is how 1300+ became 28.
Borgund is the best saved church we have, and also most famous, perhaps? It is something about how it sits in the landscape, the monumentality of it. It is also the most commercialized, with the most visitors (except for Gol stavkyrkje moved to Oslo perhaps). Borgund is quite accessible from Bergen.
And btw, I am back west …
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