Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Stave Church













Part of this church was built around the year 1100.

10th-century missionaries to Norway concerned themselves with establishing chapels, churches and other ecclesiastical centers. Thus far, archaeological exploration has revealed traces of thirty-odd post churches built no later than 1200. Some of these early wooden churches disappeared due to neglect as well as fire and other natural disasters, but the rest were replaced by new constructions. Nevertheless, 28 of the stave churches built after the year 1100 still survive.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

The reindeer man.

















The bizarre mystery of the so-called "reindeer man" widened as a sixth person reported receiving a Polaroid picture of the strange figure.
The Norwegian media has been fascinated by the story after the news broke of a series of deliveries of photographs in the area - of a mystery figure dressed as a reindeer.
"I was reasonably surprised when I saw what was in my mailbox. A person sitting dressed like a reindeer was sitting in the picture. He or she sat in a wooden camping chair reading a book in my garden," said a man who got a picture in his mailbox.
Somebody said it was me, but they was wrong..ha...ha...
"The reindeer man" was a women, an art student.