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NORWAY FACTS:

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This page is under construction.  

While I select photos from 3 different trips (2001, 2005, and 2008) to Norway you can view some content from prior work of mine until the photos are loaded.


WEB ALBUM:
Trønderlag tour 2005
<Click here> to view a "web album" of pictures from a group heritage trip of the organization Trønderlag of America ( a group of "Trønders" or people from the Trøndelag region of Norway) who traveled to Trøndelag (a "fylke", or county in mid-Norway) for 2 weeks including research at the national archives and visits to family members in Norway.


HURTIGRUTEN VIDEOS
A trip up the coast of Norway in the summer of 2008.  The videos are selected still photos of this trip processed with software to create a sense of motion.  Music has also been added.
Click on the individual video name below to view that segment.  You will be taken to the Google Video site where I have stored the "videos".




*BERGEN - Scenes on the day before we leave
*THE SHIP "NORDNORGE"
The Nordnorge was the ship that rescued the passengers of the M/V Explorer which sank in Antarctica) <Click Here> to view a video of the Nordnorge rescue.
*DAY 1 - Leaving Bergen
*DAY 2 - Arriving Alesund and sailing through Geirangerfjord (Beautiful scenery)
*DAY 3 - Trondheim - we have a 3 hour stop
*DAY 4 - Svartisen, the Lofoten Islands (Beautiful scenery), and Trollfjord
*DAY 5 - Tromso
*DAY 6-7 - The North Cape and continuing to Kirkenes


PICTURES OF NORWAY.
Selected Pictures of Norway will be added later.

BERGEN

OSLO

TRONDHEIM


*Sverresborg - Trøndelag Folk Museum (Trøndheim)

Lo kirke (Lo church) was the first building at Sverresborg.  It has a special connection to me as it was moved from Åsen to the island of Saltøy in Skatval. Saltøy was the ancestral island of my mother's father's farmily back to the 1600's.  The church, originally built in 1615, was moved to Saltøy in 1858 when a new church was completed in Åsen.  On Saltøy it was used as a fisherman's house and storage building for fish and equipment but not as a boat house.  At that point it was modified by removing the tower, lowering the roof, and adding different windows and doors.  Lo kirke has an additional connection to me as the father of my distant cousin, Ingrid Brechan, was was one the people who worked on the resconstruction.

The fisherman's house was torn down in 1909 and in 1921 the materials of the church were moved to Sverresborg and a church was built based on a model of Gløshaugen church on Gartland in Grong, which was from about the same period.  The inventory of the contents of the church were gone.
CREDITS:  I "borrowed" this picture of Lo kirke from the Internet while I am organizing mine.  My pictures were from a rainy day in September of 2005 and I will select the best version I can find later.