SC - Iceland

[Linda Peterson]

While it would be a lot more fun to stop over and visit Nanna on the way
to look at stavechurches, as it happens there is a lovely one, built in
Norway and then disasembled and put back together here in the States, in
Rapid City, South Dakota.

Mirhaxa

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:
> I don't know much about stave churches, actually. Presumably some of the
> early Icelandic churches were stave churces but none survived - lack of
> wood, after all, made these churches extremely costly to build. There is a
> nice site about Norwegian stave churches, with lots of photos, here:
> 
> http://w1.2777.telia.com/~u222200871/echurch.htm
> 
> and another, describing techniques, building styles, history etc., is here:
> 
> http://home.ringnett.no/bjornstad/stavechurch/frameset.html
> 
> Nanna
> 
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