Tag: Balke

• Glimmers from a golden age

  

  Norway is one of those countries – like Macedonia or Mongolia – that has a modest footprint today but once settled and ruled distant lands. This is not to say that Norway’s best days are behind it. But it does have a storied, almost mythic past. Unlike the Greeks and Romans, the Old Kingdom of…

  Jesse Rude

  May 23, 2025

  Miscellaneous

  13th century, Østre Toten, Balke, Bergen, Borgund, early Middle Ages, Gothic, Helgestad, history, Iceland, Norway, Reykjavik, Romanesque, Stavanger, stave churches, stavkirke