20 August, 2007

Walk in the neighborhood.

A little evening walk.

Bryggen in Bergen, the picture is taken from Nordnes.


Witch stone.
This is a memorial for the 350 witches who was burned to death in the witch-process, without law and court. The priests sentence them to die.

In our time we may wonder what motivated the extensive witch hunts, where an estimate of more than 50 000 people in Europe and Northern America – mainly women – were tortured and killed. The Church made its standings and its actions legitimate through the book Malleus Maleficarum – the Witch Hammer – written in 1486 by the South German Inquisitor Heinrich Krammer and Professor of Theology in Cologne Jacob Sprenger. The book was used as a manual for witch hunting inquisitors.

Mass hysteria and hatred towards women have been launched as possible explanations to why the women were executed. But we should explain the witch hunts by trying to enter the minds of medieval people. What was their perception of witches and magicians? They really, truly believed in their existence, and that they in fact were accomplices of Satan. In order to maintain God’s order these witches and magicians must be executed. Probably these people were mostly wise women or practicing midwives with knowledge and ideas about diseases and healing processes. They were often in difficult positions; no matter if the patient died or was healed – either way it signified powers out of the ordinary.

In Bergen Mary Geith was convicted and burnt as a witch on Nordnes in 1615. Mary had paid another woman to shipwreck a vessel with many people on board. The woman who had done the deed for money, had her neck wrung in the basement of the Town Hall, supposedly by Satan himself!

The witch hunts decreased during the 17th century. A general increase in knowledge made society’s elites ask for evidence when witches were charged. In time people stopped believing that there existed phenomenons like broom flights in the night.

18 August, 2007

cheers!

Hello everybody..

It's not to often but today my wife is not working....

We started with a nice red wine and just started on a bottle with Gin, it's a dangerous stuff with no taste and together with Battery or Orange-juice it's like dynamite.

Maby we hit city tonight or we stay home and have a party, just me and my wife...

cheers

11 August, 2007

Happy birthday BRO

My brother has birthday to day.
He is turning 43........



Back then he was the cutest little thing.

Fantoft Stave Church

FANTOFT STAVE CHURCH Bergen. This church were built at Fortun in Sogn, but was pulled down and purchased privately by Consul F. Gade. It was then transported from Fortun in Sogn and re-erected on his estate at Fantoft near Bergen, whereupon it was painstakingly restored in the 1870’s. In 1994 the Fantoft (Fortun) stave church burned down and was completely destroyed. After the fatal fire in 1994, there was a strong desire to build a new copy of the church, and this work was finished in 1997.





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07 August, 2007

Is it something wrong wrong with us, or is the world going crazy ??

Why i ask ?

A woman we know, some days ago got a phone call from a prior neighbor , they head not seen or spoked with each for about one year.

Our friend was not home, but on vacation at the time.

This prior neighbor could tell, that she head put here 11year old son on the bus and he was on the way to visit our friend.
This was a bus trip that lasts for 6-7hours, and in it's selves no matter of a problem , if she only warned and make sure our friend was home.

She told this prior neighbor that you can't just send a little kid on the bus like this.
Ok she say but you comes home within a couple of days , and then she say I can call your landlord and he can stay there until you come home.

Our friend is now on her way home, and there waits a little boy who she really don't know and who don't know here.

So I'm just going too ask again, is it something wrong with us who would newer consider to do something like this, or has she lost here mind.


03 August, 2007

Some pictures from around the city.

someone put up this measurement, just for shoving how high the sea will be in the years to come. When the ice is melted because of global warming.....



This is a statue of Ole Bull a famous composer.
If you want you can read about him her.


Music pavilion, in the city-park


Lille Lungegårdsvann - Small scenic lake in the city centre


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