Just
before going to bed last night we looked out of our window around 11:30 and saw
a glorious sunset over Trondheim.
Our last day in Trondheim and we
decided to go to the Sverresborg Trondelag Folk Museum about a 20 minute bus
ride from the city centre.
The
museum has more than 60 vintage buildings which show the building traditions in
Trøndelag, from town and country, from mountain to coast and from Sami huts to
city mansions. The stave church from Haltdalen dates from 1170, but the
majority of the houses are from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The
museum dates back to 1909, when a group of Trondheim residents started to
collect "characteristic examples of the way houses were built in earlier
times". In 1914 the area surrounding the ruins of King Sverre's medieval
castle was appropriated for the site of the new open-air museum.
King Sverre's castle, Zion, was
erected in the winter of 1182–83. This was the first stone castle in Norway,
and it was to play an important role when Sverre the King of the Birkebeiner
fought against the Kuvlungs and Baglers to rule the country. The importance of the castle rock was
recognised once again when it was used by German troops for fortifications
during World War II.
Throughout the village there are
old sod roofed farm houses and their farm buildings all built from logs, dating
from the 1700s. One of the buildings
contained a heath with a raised metal plate where a girl was rolling out barley
and rye flour dough and cooking traditional flat bread on the plate.
Another section of the folk
village contained a small town with the traditional wooden clad buildings which
contained a series of displays, ranging from early telephone equipment and
exchanges, dentist surgeries dating from early 1900s with foot operated drills,
ouch! the latest surgery dating from 1958.
One building contained a ski
museum with an exhibition of skis dating back from the 1600s to modern Olympic
skis and drawing and models describing the use of skis in early days for day to
day activities. There were also photos
and films showing competitive skiing and ski jumping together with many glass
cases displaying cups and medals won by Norwegian skiers.
At the entrance to the park
there is a museum with displays from birth to death, these displays include items
and photos covering around the last 150 years.
There was also a hall displaying the decorated smocks and caps worn by
graduating high school students, a gallery of cartoons and modern art.
On our arrival back at the hotel
we turned on the TV just in time for the start of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
festival on the Thames, hundreds of boats including row boats, Dunkirk little
boats, canal narrow boats and many others a most interesting one and a half
hours.
We have just returned from
Nidaros Cathedral where we attended an Anglican Service conducted by a Bishop
who flew in from London to licence a parishioner as a Reader and confirm a
young girl. After the service we were
invited to join the parishioners for a coffee and cake and chat, there were
several visitors from Australia.
Tomorrow we leave for Oslo, a
train trip of more than six and a half hours.
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