Norway: Trondheim's Seven Spectacular Sights 

Why is there a picture of Bergen and not Trondheim on the vignette (the picture is of Bergen Wharf)?

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"Elva" means river. So Nidelva literally means the Nid river. The "a" at the end of "elva" means "the" by the way. 2:29 Sorry, city *state*? This isn't Italy or Germany with their city states. Norwegian cities has always been governed together with a larger area. Trøndelag was governed by a parliament, the Frostating before all the kings and chieftains took power. It was a parliament of people owning farms and nobles. Slaves, women and people without land didn't have a voice. And it was a combined parliament, judicial court (the only role it still has today) and a pagan religious event. But Frostating ruled over the whole fjord, not just Trondheim, and it predated the city. In the time of the kings it legitimized them by electing them as kings over the area (usually because they already has a power base elsewhere leaving us little choice in the matter. But yeah, formally our kings where elected for a long, long time before a hereditary monarchy was implemented. 0:37 Yikes, you got the syllables wrong. Nidaros, the old name of the city is essentially a compond word. Nid is the name of the river and is said first, almost with a pause before saying the "a". So Nid-ar-os Os means the mouth of a river, where it meets the sea. And the "ar" essentially says that the "os" belongs to the "Nid" river. It's really really old grammar no longer in use in Norway, but still found in place names. The old name "Nidaros" is therefore a place name given to the city because it's located in a existing place that already had that name. While Trondheim/Trondhjem means home of the Trønder people, essentially the people living around the fjord who prior to the unification of Norway was a separate people from others in Norway, of course related, we're all north germanic and where west norse back then. But it was a separate identity and a separate political entity from other parts of the country. Equivalent to a petty kingdom, but more democratic. 1:26 Trøndelag means law of the Trønder people, but also the land under the jurisdiction of said laws. 1:40 That picture is definitely not of a stavkirke (Stav church) The "stave" part of the name "stavkirke" is referring to the building technique using planks going vertically up into the air in a specific way, rather then the horisontal logs of the building in that picture. 2:53 That church *might* technically qualify as one, but it's pretty pathetic considering what we really have here in this country. 14:48 That's a truth with modifications, as it Has only looked gothic since its last reconstruction. Only the lower half/third of the church is original.