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Borgund Stave Church
Borgund stavkirke
Borgund Stave Church is a medieval wooden stave church in Lærdal, Norway, built around 1180–1200 and later augmented in the 14th century. It is a multi-tiered, Sogn-type triple-nave stave church with tar-darkened timber walls, overhanging shingled roofs, carved dragon-head gable decorations and a free‑standing stave bell tower to the south. The building was taken out of regular parish use in 1868 and is preserved and displayed as a museum.
First raised
1101
Its prime
1400
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1400
What Borgund Stave Church looked like in its prime.
A compact, multi-tiered wooden church of dark tarred pine: steep, overlapping shingle roofs rising in diminishing tiers to a small shingled steeple; carved dragon‑head ridge ornaments at the gables; vertical stave walls set on a low stone foundation; an encircling covered ambulatory beneath wide eaves; and a separate small stave bell‑tower to the south. Surrounded by a grassy graveyard and low stone walls, the timber surfaces are uniformly weather-darkened and the scale is human-sized rather than monumental.
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10 places to explore in 1400.
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