- The Borgund stave church is the one best kept intact through time… ... Map of where all the stave churches once were located. Borgund Church.
- Borgund stave church is the most authentic wooden stave church in Norway, built between 1180 and 1200. Adorned with woodcarvings, runes.
- You may, for instance, use a bus taking you from Lærdal to Borgund Stave Church. By car. Going by car, you need to use Europe Street 16.
- Borgund Stave Church is said to have been built around 1180 and it’s one of the few dozen original stave churches that are still standing.
- Borgund Stave Church history. Most of the frame churches built in Norway in the period from 1130 to 1350 when the bubonic plague was raging in Europe.
- Borgund stave church has an impressive exterior with six different roof sections on top of one another, and frightening dragon heads on each ridge.
- Borgund Stave Church is a former parish church initially of the Catholic Church and later the Church of Norway in Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county...
- The Borgund Stave Church Visitors Center offers exhibitions about the history of stave churches in Norway and their role in the Middle Ages.
- relief from the Urnes stave church. ... …the stave church is the Borgund church ( c. 1150) in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.
- Borgund stave church was bought by Fortidsminneforeningen in 1877. The first guidebook in English for the stave church was published in 1898.