Why Norway's Churches Look Weird 

Congratulations, you managed a whole video without refrencing the netherlands!!

This video is beautiful.

Dude u completely forgot romanian churches... I was so excited to see my country represented but tgat, never happened 😭

Can you make a video about the weird Netherlands architecture?

@@johnwt7333 yes

Honey blocks also can be used to prevent the oxidation of copper

@@johnwt7333 Imagine someone hits it with an axe...

That would've happened eventually. The oxidizing of the copper happens pretty quickly, but it takes some time.

Oh yes, piss. One of the founding case in European law, that explains that people can use EU law before the national judges, Van Gend en Loos was also because of piss - fermented urine - transported from Germany to the Netherlands. Lol

The rebuilt city castle in Berlin has a new copper roof as well, which is brown-ish, except the spots with bird shit, they are already green

same

Same

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I am not Norwegian, but i have studied europe and early Christianity and i have had never known about this. It is wild and so interesting, and awesome at the same time.

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Then you should look in to Lemmino, he has a similar animation quality.

@@leonmuller8475 Yes. Unfortunately he only uploads once every full moon.

@@HisMajestyWalrus Actually even less than that, but yeah.

also similar to newer theramintrees

This channel is going to blow up. I love this streamlined and efficient animation style. It has an easy to understand and charming artistic value to it

If you are reffering to castles just asume that the swedes burned them down.

@@tomihodet354 burn down stone? what?

We didn't build any, Norway was Denmark and Sweden's backyard

@@_yellow Akershus festning, Håkonshallen and the fortress in Trondheim, Halden etc. beg a differ. You can find ruins of stone fortifications all over the country, Slottsfjellet in Tønsberg, is the a good example, and it was indeed burned and razed many times, including by the swedes.

@@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327 Stone is a rock and can burn or even melt given enough heat.

That deserves a scene in a film right there.

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@@Payvul sure, if you too want your dick to rot off by the end of the year

Interesting!

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@@mattd2026huh?

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Ylivieska finland had a church from 1786 but someone decided to go ahead and commit arson to it. The church was completely in flames within 10 minutes or so.

The house on my family farm in Norway was built in 1630. The one before that was built in the 1200s, but it was burned down just before the 1600s

I think the oldest stave churces still standing were build in the 11/12th century

@@juti488 ....and the church you saw in the video is 800 years old...

@@Dan-fo9dk yea im aware

also really cool is the replica longship that Bob Asp made and sailed to Norway from Duluth. I mean, the Hjemkomst Center is named after the ship itself.

all my relations. grandma from the black hills and grandpa on the other family side from Rosseau County. Homesteaded by walking north into Canada, and ran into MORE Norwegians. Manitoba is a suburb of Noway and Iceland.

What I wood give to try that. It would really help me stav of the boredom. There’s Norway I wouldn’t love that.

It was funny. And now I’m dying from curiosity. 😂

Exactly. There is even a "Trail of wooden architecture" in southeastern Poland.

its because Slavic and northern Germanic was mainly build with the wood because of natural resources like he say in the video and because if you look at medieval Citizen housing you can see that Slavic and Nordic cities was mainly in wooden logs (for example game Kingdom come Deliverance) and western was mainly in Timber Framing and stone (because of Roman empire and Frankish influence).

@Holex TV He also said that "You can only find them in Norway," which is not that accurate after all...

@@vkdrk he meant stave churches wooden church doesnt mean stavechurch and in poland there is one stavechurch that was transported from norway to poland

@@vkdrk Stave churches are pretty unique to Norway. But we also have 1620 other wooden churches that are not stave churches.

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There are a few examples of areas with unique chruches. Northern germany for instance has quite distinct brick churches though they are closer to the "typical" chruch than the ones in Norway.

Not sure if they used shipbuilding techniques or just general wooden house techniques that were used at that time. In southern Poland there are a lot of wooden churches and that as far away as possible from the sea. But Wikipedia says it’s “horizontal log technique” "The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages..."

I'd like to add that the main room of a stave church is called 'the ship'.

@@LadyLiveLol It's not exclusive to stave churches or even a language group though. There is a Germanic source and a latin source meaning "large boat" used for the major vault of a church, leading to a number parallels in many languages where one word means both: From Proto-Germanic: *skipą Norwegian: skip Swedish: skepp Danish: skib Dutch: schip High German: Schiff From Latin: Navis Spanish: nave There is also: English: nave Polish: Nawa French: nef but those refer only to the church afaik. There is the obvious similarity between both, at least in Old High German there is a more wide meaning of "hollow body", but more importantly there is a christian connection. Noah's ark, the Barque of Saint Peter, the ship has been a symbol for the church from the beginning. I don't think there's is too much overlap between building a ship and building a roof. These days wood isn't used as often therefore the similarities stand out more but back then it was completely normal. In general a ship as a water vehicle is much more sophisticated and I think the superficial similarities would be very trivial to a wood working master. When it comes to Pine Valley Chapel, it has the most basic house shape that you can imagine, no ship to be seen. Some of language used to describe it's supposed ship-like qualities is straight up bull feces. Ebenezer Bryce learned ship building before he left Scotland at 17 years old and the church has a curved ceiling (not roof!) but the disney like narrative that they made from this sounds like a typical tourist tale.

Exactly. Even in the 'heart' of Christendom in Italy you can find churches and cathedrals which are adored with the depictions of different mythical beings not present in the bible like harpies, centaurs etc. I even saw an entire zodiac carved into the floor in some Sicilian church. In this case they were probably however done for artistic purposes rather than preserving old traditions as I doubt they were popular that late into history, but the point is people definitely didn't shy from depictions like that back in the day

The same thing happened in Sami areas many hundreds of years later. The drum was used in pre-Christian religious rituals. There are preserved drums that have images of Christ and church buildings next to the old Sami gods. Whether it is an expression that the Sámi had room for another god, or whether it was a deliberate way of carrying out the Christianization from the missionaries, is more uncertain. I believe more in the first than the latter.

The nave is literally called The Ship in all three Scandinavian languages. Danish churches takes it a step further and include a large model ship suspended from the ceiling.

@@chrthiel You will also find the ship in Norwegian churches.

@@chrthiel The nave is also called that in finnish

Many was destroyed because of the size. I know the stave church where my fathers family are from outside Sogndal was destroyed in the last part of 19 century. Just to give room for a bigger new church

'tons' is a bit of a stretch when there are less than 30 left in the whole country.

@@DaDa-ui3sw if you weigh them, I'm sure you'll find they weigh several tons

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In Ukrainian part of the Carpathian mountains there are similar churches as well.

@@elagrion Slava Ukraini!

I think he is trying to appeal the current generation of fast edits and quick cuts while keeping quality. Tho I do agree that it is a shame we don't get to see some of the great visualizations for more than 5 seconds

That claim about the trusses is not something found in the litterature about stave churches so take that with a grain of salt 🙂 (It would be really inconvinient to build with such materials when lumber and an axe is available)

@@rolfnilsen6385 I mean, trusses are pretty much the same as the skeletal structure of a boat, just of a uniform size rather than varying to provide curvature. It may not be mentioned in the literature, but structurally the pieces are effectively the same.

@@cuddlestsq2730 The loads are very different, and so is the wood choosen for the job, and the way it is joined together. The common denominator is that it is wood. Not very much more.

You're right. Although it is important to note that many traditions we have today in christianity do not share links with pagan tradition. An important example of this is the christmas tree, which is a 19th century tradition and does not have any links to any pagan tradition, even though this is often suggested.

@@jellees The Christmas tree is a gentile tradition though, in the north it may be associated with yule, but for instance, us Catalans have the tió de nadal, which also goes back to our gentile days. Trunks have been associated to winter solstice celebrations since before christianity existed. Also, at least in Catholic Europe (with the exception of Castile and Portugal), the presence of myths and gallo-roman ideas was present all the way into the 1600s, some books from the 1300s in Catalonia even reference the influence of Mars and other deities on the people.

Yes, the Wang Church. It was actully built in Vang, Norway ab 1200, puchased by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Preussen, and rebuilt in Karpacz, Poland

You're right

You know the story behind why it was transported their?

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As 50% norwegian, 25% english, 14% scottish, 7% austrian, 2% hungarian, 0,7% german, 0,6% danish and 99% not idiot this is beginning to be irrelevant as it didn't even add up to 100%

He even used it correctly!

Those deserve a video of their own, but they're not the same (mainly in regards to age).

@@hoogyoutube well i didn't expect you to reply, to refine my comment ill just say this, many of the churches follow the same design of the Norwegian construction, i just thought id point out that there are many other churches of similar construction and some, in my opinion defy reality tbh, take it as a pledge then, im looking forward to the video then, i love the Norse churches but id love to see a video about the rest too, maybe an explanation why they are still standing because man, those are crazy, i get the Norse approach, but the others, some i don't really get from a practical point of view

@@martinmullender-taeter5163Did you even watch the video though? the sole reason the Norwegian churches are special is because they’re literally half pagan😭 The structure is based on that of a viking ship and the decorations are mostly that of norse mythology over christian art

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@@smeetsnoud1 left on read so far :( he’s probably like “dude why are you sending me this” lmao

"there aren’t a lot of them left in Norway still though" There are only 25 left at their orginal locations. In addition there are three that have been relocated to different Norwegian museums and one that was sort'a relocated to Poland in the mid 19th century.

@@automaticninjaassaultcat3703 how do you know if the technique used for Ukrainian churches was different? Wooden churches are also very common in the Russian European North. This might well be Norse influence but can pretty much be its own phenomenon. Both ways, it is also as unique. None is 'better' or 'worse', all of them are worth mentioning and admiration.

@@iz6566 Ukrainians and Scandinavians came from different ancients, thus it is better to distinguish types and locations, and as a consequtive - techiniqes and then also religion part. But who knows, which are older of cooler, since many of them were burnt, unfortunately...

Вітаю, козаче

@@kapsho вітаю

@@iz6566what are you even talking about? these churches are special because they’re almost pagan, not because they’re wood

Exactly, they exist in Russia and Ukraine too but this guy acts like they're special and Norwegian

@@stamp503 There exist stave churches of the nordic type in Russia and Ukraine? TIL.

Yes it's a bit wierd he says that, because if he means what I think he does, it actually store heat. Very useful in cold weather like we have up here.

@@More_Row they are usually smaller in scale, but not that different in design. You can find a lot of them in Slovakia and in the Carpathian Mountains in general.

@@More_Row There's a stave church in Karpacz, Poland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vang_Stave_Church

@@tomaszmagierowski2166 Obviously built in Norway, by Norwegians. Its a fucking shame our unique heritage is a tourist destination in some foreign country.

@@nicolaiby1846 It would have been demolished had it not been moved, I wouldn't complain