Borgund Stave Church and cemetery, Wide View

            Borgund Stave church, about 800 years old and made entirely of wood.  It's located near Lærdal and to get it you have to pass through the world's longest road-tunnel. 

It looks deceptively large, it's actually quite small and the entrance only fits one person.

The construction is resilient thanks to the wood treatment:  A tall tree would be found, its branches cut and the tree would start emitting sap.  The sap covered the tree and they'd leave the tree alone for 5-20 years.  That wood which had then 'self preserved' was used in this kind of construction.  The base of the church sits on stone, so no ground moisture seeps upwards and the climate is generally pretty favorable with low humidity.  So with these factors the church hasn't rotted away.  

There used to be hundreds of these across Norway but now only 20-30 remain.

The architecture gives the building a strange perspective, and it looks larger than it actually is.  

There's a cemetery next to the church and a museum neraby. It was raining when I went and had to make the most of it, but at least I got a rainbow.

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Taken in: Norway / Sogn og Fjordane / Borgund (show map)

Taken on: September 20, 2018

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