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Kongevegen: Vindhellvegen
I guess not so many who visited Borgund Stavkirke know about old road, called Vindhellvegen. I saw the group of turists that came by bus and stopped at the parking near the church. They walked around the temple, took some pictures and went back to the bus. They left this place, looking for other norway’s attractions. Vindhellvegen lies about 20 minutes of walk from this parking lot. And in my opinion this is the place you must see when you are in this area. But probably only the locals and those who read about it in internet know this place. Even if there is a big info board about Kongevegen…
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Kongevegen: Galdane
When I finished with my Maristova – Kyrkjestølen – Maristova trip (plus one additional summit climbing) I have still a half day to organize. I decided to eat something first and good place for it is Borgund Stavkirke Museum, which includes café. It took several minutes to get there, but unfortunately museum’s door was closed. I found out that they are open up to end of September, so I came about two weeks too late. I looked at old wooden church instead. There was a young man from the museum who waited for some group of tourists, but he didn’t agree to let me in. In this case I ate…
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Borgund stavkirke, Torpo stavkirke & Undredal stavkirke
For more than two centuries, from the end of the 10th to the 13th century, faith in Christ mixed in the north with beliefs in pagan gods. At that time around 1000 stavkirke (stav – stave, kirke – church) was built in Norway, which today still can be admired by nearly 30. Many scientists say that this type of structure was built long before Christianity (the beginning of the 11th century), and the Vikings built they temples in stav style. The base of the stave structure was a skeleton frame made of vertical corner posts (called stav or masts), then pinned by long boards (staves), which were applied vertically like…
