{"id":1603,"date":"2016-08-29T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/?page_id=1603"},"modified":"2016-09-12T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T21:22:12","slug":"borgund-stav-church-norway-dark-light","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/borgund-stav-church-norway-dark-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Borgund Stav Church \u2013 Norway &#038; Dark Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/anastylosis-audio-bank\/borgund-dark-light\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/Borgund-Dark-Light.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Borgund Dark Light\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/Borgund-Dark-Light.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1573\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/Borgund-Dark-Light-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Borgund Dark Light\" width=\"282\" height=\"376\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/anastylosis-audio-bank\/borgund-stav-church-for-web\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/Borgund-Stav-Church-for-web.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1067\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Borgund Stav Church for web\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/Borgund-Stav-Church-for-web-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1572\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/Borgund-Stav-Church-for-web-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Borgund Stav Church for web\" width=\"292\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/elevator.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/asset\/getEmbed\/57c5b6eae758ae8b7a3685ba\/null\/true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"40\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are very few 12<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">century wooden buildings that have not been rebuilt with new wood every few centuries. Yet some of the Norwegian Stav churches contain heavy beams and other wood that has been dated from trees that were cut in the year 1100, making Stav churches among the oldest original wooden buildings remaining in use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stav churches were built like boats that \u201cfloat\u201d on a stone foundation. To represent that unique structure in the drawing, the ground plan of \u00a0the beams is superimposed on the surrounding graveyard. (Look closely at the drawing to see the description of how the buildings were built written within the plan. This dark writing not only describes the building process, it also visually acts as the shadow of the church.) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The historic photo of Constantinople (or as it is known today, Istanbul) in the center of the plan is a reference to the wide travels of the Vikings \u2013 leading some to speculate that the strong similarities of the finials on Stav churches and the finials on Thai temples come from personal observation, or from meetings in Constantinople with other travelers. The longer I study the architecture of the 12<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">century, the more I am drawn to the buildings that exhibit clear echoes of other buildings or cultures and speak to connections across time and space. There truly was a Global Middle Ages and I have begun to more consciously choose monuments that embody those connections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 1825 and 1925, more than 800,000 Norwegians \u2014 about one-third of Norway\u2019s population &#8212; emigrated\u00a0to North America \u2014 with the majority emigrating\u00a0to the upper Midwest of USA, with the exception of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ireland<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, no single country contributed a larger percentage of its population to the United States than Norway.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0To commemorate this exodus, I placed historical photos of emigrants on ships leaving Norway beneath the floor, where the builders of these churches would have buried church members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you look to your right, there is a second version of the Borgund Stav church titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dark Light<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historical observers of Stav churches often commented on the interior dark light. There were no windows, just a few round holes drilled in the area between the two lower roofs so a holy gloom filled the churches. This drawing speculates on the mysterious atmosphere within the buildings and the churches\u2019 links to the fjord landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/anastylosis-audio-bank\/\">\u2190BACK<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few 12th-century wooden buildings that have not been rebuilt with new wood every few centuries. 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