#Urnes

ancetre1938ancetre1938
2025-10-16

arrêtez de faire chier moi qui suit je demande un peu de stabilité à l' il faut qu'on arrête de passer d'un à un autre vous rendez-vous compte de ce que nous vivons nous les français? combien ont envie de retourner aux quand je vois jouer au redresseur de tort ça me met hors de moi

Some of the Norwegian stave churches seem kind of … just like any wooden building. Like Urnes.
Until you see its decor.

A couple of years ago I was driving around Lusterfjorden, early September and just looking at a landscape I didnt really know. And suddenly, as it happens, I saw a sign to Ornes. It reminded me of something, I just couldn’t place it. So, I drove on and ended up at a ferry quay. The sky was blue, the water green, the trees in all colurs of autumn, and in the distance I saw a peninsula and maybe a … really, could this be Urnes, the most famous of all the Norwegian stave churches?

Being late in season I had to do a longer hike while waiting for the not-so-frequent ferry to the other side of the fjord. I was totally alone. Everything was closed, the cafe, the toilets, the tourist information, the church itself - it was just me and this UNESCO monument.

Urnes is the oldest of the stave churches we have left in Norway, approx. 1130, and it might be an even older church beneath it.
Urnes has given name to its own decorative style, and, yes, there are dragons. I am not sure if this is keeping Christ awake at night.
The style is found in Denmark, the British islands and Ireland.

I still have this happy/hot/excited/unbelivable feeling inside me thinking back at this day.
Taking the ferry back I shared it with farmers and their apples. This is The Apple Country of Norway.

#ornes
#urnes
#vestlandet
#norge
#norway
#stavkyrkje
#UNESCO
#arkitektur
#architecture
#bygning
#kirke
#church
#landscape
#lusterfjorden
#skjolden

Wood is the Nordic language
Kristina VassjøUrd@pixelfed.social
2025-08-26
"Creatures of Old", inspired by the "Urnes creature" carved on Urnes Stavkyrkje (stavechurch), Norway.

#drawing #pencil #charcoal #paper #acidfree #fantasy #creature #horse #urnes #woodcarving #art #stavechurch #stavkyrkje #norway
Kristina VassjøUrd@pixelfed.social
2025-08-26
"Creatures of Old", inspired by the "Urnes creature" carved on Urnes Stavkyrkje (stavechurch), Norway.

#drawing #pencil #charcoal #paper #acidfree #fantasy #creature #horse #urnes #woodcarving #art #stavechurch #stavkyrkje #norway
Brèves de presse :mastodon:Brevesdepresse
2024-08-31

⚡️🇫🇷FLASH - SMIC à 1600€, conférence sociale sur les salaires, abrogation de la réforme des retraites… : la droite et les grands patrons contre les ? La macronie, l’extrême droite, le Medef et LR refusent un gouvernement de gauche, même sans ministres LFI. (déclarations)

blast, le souffle de l’infoblast@video.blast-info.fr
2024-06-18

LA TERRIFIANTE PROGRESSION DE L’EXTRÊME DROITE AU DELÀ DES URNES

video.blast-info.fr/w/1361nhVf

Inktober day 4. Another in my endless series of wormish experiments. Knotwork and tangled Urnes/norse-ish design stuff is relaxing to me. One of these days I’m gonna hafta start getting into doing this stuff in something sturdier than paper. #inktober2023 #inktober #dragon #urnes

Black inkwork image of a limbless dragon tangled around itself, stylized in a vaguely Urnes-style design.
2022-11-19

#Urnes #StaveChurch. #Norway ’s oldest and most highly decorated stave church. This version is the forth iteration on the same spot and dates from around 1130, just after the #Viking age.

The sides include exquisite #woodcarving over 900 years old. These panels include the original main entrance door facade (on the right). They include a mix of christian and old Norsk symbolism.

Would recommend anyone visiting this area to take this trip including the ferry ride!

Urnes Stave Church. Norway’s oldest and most highly decorated stave church. The one in this front facing view dates to around 1130.Urnes Stave Church. Side facing view with wood carvings over 900 years old. These panels include the original main entrance door facade (on the right).
2022-11-19

#Solvorn verjekai, September 2022 #Norway. Near the ferry to #Urnes #stavechurch. It was a beautiful sunny morning on this panoramic view on the village, its shore and the #Lustrafjorden.

Views as from a painting. Good times.

Solvorn verjekai, Norway. Near the ferry to Urnes stavechurch. Beautiful sunny day with panoramic view on the village, its shore and the fjord.
Sverre Christoffer Guldbergarchaeoalchemy@archaeo.social
2022-11-18

When you attend a seminar where people fight over whether the "Urnes animal" (the animal depicted on the #Urnes #stavechurch) is a horse or a lion, thereby ignoring the fundament of Scandinavian #animalstyle as the hybridisation of species.

Thankfully, the amazing contributions of other lecturers made up for it!

Picture from wikipedia: no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnes_st

Parigot-Manchot φparigotmanchot
2021-06-21
Hartmann ||⭐||Hartmann@mastodont.cat
2020-01-29

El #MHP Torra anuncia declaració institucional.
Com no sigui per anunciar eleccions, espero que els acudits que ens expliqui siguin bons!

La màxima autoritat del país ha esdevingut una riota. #Urnes ja, els catalans mai tindrem por a votar.

Hartmann ||⭐||Hartmann@mastodont.cat
2020-01-07

Felipito en el seu discurs incendiari fent referència a l'exèrcit, les forces de seguretat i intel·ligència. A #Intel·ligència, preparao i les #Urnes?

.@FdeRugy sur le projet du #référendum : "Je fais partie de ceux qui sont pour (...) La légitimité est dans les #urnes, pas dans la rue" #giletsjaunes #le79Inter t.co/BjfuhMnqeQ

tuttle_(defunct) boosted:
⚠nestort 🐃⚠nestort@quitter.no
2017-09-26
Les #urnes són en un vaixell, esperant discretament en aigües internacionals. Més informació a http://piolin.lol #1oct https://quitter.no/attachment/1442873
Nestort :fed: ⚠️ backup ⚠️nestort@mastodont.cat
2017-09-26

Les #urnes són en un vaixell, esperant discretament en aigües internacionals. Més informació a piolin.lol #1oct

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst