Well done! Your filming and editing are outstanding! I was unaware of Stave churches, now I need to know more. I'd love to explore the methods of joinery used in their construction.

@APinchOfHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I encourage you to learn more about them and maybe visit one of them one day! It's amazing to be there in person :)

Well done! My Norwegian ancestors would have been pleased. I love a good connection with the past.

Enjoying the videography. Thank you for noting these are Catholic churches. As beautiful as any cathedral or basilica in Europe. Imagery in these structures were used to help the illiterate to understand the teachings. Often local images were used to assist in this as well.

These unique churches demonstrate an interesting collision of Viking and Christian culture. I wonder how many were built in Poland...and why.

@APinchOfHistory

2 жыл бұрын

They weren't! As I said, this one was relocated here in the 19th century from Norway. And it is the only one in Poland :)

@lizj5740

2 жыл бұрын

@@APinchOfHistory Of course. My short-term memory is, well, short-term. ;-)

Thank you for this look at a unique historical architectural design. Your production quality is excellent.

@APinchOfHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks ! I do appreciate it. very good presentation, beautiful video. informative. may be some drawings of pallissade and post-churches could illustrate the evolution. plus a map with locations of former and present day stave churches.

@APinchOfHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

absolutely gorgeous building!

If this is the one in Poland, it's not recogniced as a stave church because it's been altered too much.

I am curious how symbols such as lions and dragons travelled to Scandinavia and/or around to various countries. Where did the dragon originate? Was it for certain that it was for China? In Chinese folklore, I understand that the dragon represented the soul and/or a spiritually-elevated soul such as a saint and, in that way, may be linked to longevity or eternal life. I bet you could find out far more than I could, though. Do Egyptians or Babylonians have a dragon-like creature in their myths or artwork?

@APinchOfHistory

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know that at the moment, but I'll take a closer look at it in some free time and let you know what I found in a comment here!

@2anthranilicacid

Жыл бұрын

The origin of the dragon is pretty easy to identify. Read some of the scriptures and I'm sure you'll find out quick enough. ;-)

There is a church like that at Washington Island in Wisconsin.

Nice content. Well produced, well scripted, concisely informative, and good footage. Subscribed. Look forward to watching your other videos.

@APinchOfHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Evan! Take a look at ither videos on the channel! There will be of course new ones coming up as well :)

I was missing your videos, pal. 🏅

@APinchOfHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear from you again!

thx for this piece of history

@APinchOfHistory

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Thank you jesus

Surely these churches served as inspiration for the buildings in Skyrim?

@APinchOfHistory

10 ай бұрын

I honestly never really played Skyrim (I know I know)so I'm not sure, but you might be onto something here!

Excellent! I had read of them, but seeing is better.

@APinchOfHistory

10 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

They've found some ruins of a Norse Heathen temple (hof/hov) preserved several years ago in Norway, so scholars can definitively say that the layout, and function of the stave churches are very different in spite of the Norse influences in the woodwork. One of the reasons the stave churches would have not had a lot of windows or light when they were Catholic churches Catholic doctrine wanted you to think about darkness, sin, and damnation a lot, similar to how the Ancient Greeks would demonstrate in drama the worst sins of characters that you wouldn't want to make your role models, so that you wouldn't want to commit those sins in the first place (catharsis). But, after The Reformation the Lutherans wanted more light, and brighter, white, and tan colors, and windows in churches because they wanted believers to think of Christ as a being that brings light, and positive feelings around salvation when you look at the interior. The two cats i.e. "lions" guarding the entrance could be some kind of indirect reference to the Norse goddess Freya who had two cats that pulled her chariot in Norse Mythology. But, priests, and missionaries that had been to Byzantium, and Pre-Classical Greek ruins could have seen the twin lions statues guarding the gates of Mycenae, and incorporated that into the design.

@APinchOfHistory

2 ай бұрын

Thanks. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you've said. However, regarding the design of the churches and it's darkness/brightness I would say the ideological reasons, though valid, are secondary to the practical ones. It's to say in nortern Europe early and high medieval churches had few and small windows in order to keep the warmth inside (the technology was limited, for the most part glass was unobtainable or hard to get) and by the time Lutherans came to be glass for the windows was way more widespread so you could afford building big windows.

Beautiful.

this needs more views!

@APinchOfHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Most European churches/cathedrals didn't have benches. I doubt you would be any colder in church than ft getting to it. Body heat probably helped the indoor temps.

I got married in one of these in Rapid City, SD.

@APinchOfHistory

3 ай бұрын

Wow, fantastic. What stands for the abbreviation "SD"? Sorry, I'm not from the US.

@JC-yt1pm

3 ай бұрын

@@APinchOfHistory South Dakota and the stavkirke is known as Chapel in the Hills.

I want norwegian greencard

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