History of the church and state in Norway from the tenth to the sixteenth century . h as we now find at Moster or on Kinn, musthave gazed on the stupendous pile of St. Sophia, or thewealth of gilding and colour of many buildings whichthey met with during the Crusades. It seems not at aUimprobable that they brought back from their stay in theEast, many ideas which were afterwards put into practicein their own land. Witness, for example, the klokketaarn,which we find built alongside some of the stavkirJcer ofNorway, such as Eingebu, in Gudbrandsdal, and Borgund,in Leerdal, and there we will find
History of the church and state in Norway from the tenth to the sixteenth century . h as we now find at Moster or on Kinn, musthave gazed on the stupendous pile of St. Sophia, or thewealth of gilding and colour of many buildings whichthey met with during the Crusades. It seems not at aUimprobable that they brought back from their stay in theEast, many ideas which were afterwards put into practicein their own land. Witness, for example, the klokketaarn,which we find built alongside some of the stavkirJcer ofNorway, such as Eingebu, in Gudbrandsdal, and Borgund,in Leerdal, and there we will find the way in which theNorwegians reproduced the Campanile, f * Snorre says it was to St. Peters. t It seems likely, also, that the curious laxetrapper (ladders or stages)erected along the shore for the purpose of watching the salmon nets,which are to be found in Norway, were brought from the shores ofGreece, where similar structures for watching the movements of the fishhave been in use since classical times. It would seem that these areonly found in Norway and the From a Photograph bij] [T. Olaf Willson. HEAD OF KING EYSTEIN (1103—1123), The founder of the Monastery of Munkeliv, in Bergen. This carving, inscribed Evstein Eex, is contemporary with the erection of the Cloister, 1107—1111, and is now in the Bergen Museum. [To face 2-11-2 SIGUED JORSALFAREE. 113 During the long absence of Sigurd, his brother Eysteinhad devoted himself to the development of his kingdom,and had ruled wisely and well. He did much to improvethe greatest source of the wealth of Norway—the fisheries—and also looked closely after the inland parts of the countryas well. The roads were improved, and in places where noregular road existed, but only an accustomed track, hecaused varder or cairns to be erected to indicate the one of the land routes to Nidaros, frequented bypUgrims to the shrine of St. 01 af, that over the bare andinhospitable Dovre Fjeld, he erected fjeldstuer, o
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