My life in Bergen, a photoblog: viking

05 November, 2008

That's My World - Bergen city

I have had some day of from work and today i vent for a morning walk. It has been a cold but sunny day, and we have been out for two long walks today.

First of all, a picture from my neighborhood. As you can see, the sun is shining..

This next 4 pictures are of a monument for the Norwegian sea trawlers who trough all time since the Vikings, in War and peace had their work and living at sea.
It's a seven meter high monument located at Torgallmenningen. Made by Dyre Vaa (1903-1980) in 1950. Consists of 12 statues and four relief in two heights.

This is a wooden sculpture.

the last few years, the school of art build some sculpture and place it in city

This is some other kind of art.

The great son of Bergen.

Ole Bull, if you want to read more about him just hit the link

Then we are back to my favorite place. Bryggen (Bergen Harbor) this time i did as you can see, in B/W

When i was down at the harbor i met these two guys, they where enjoying the morning sun and the morning drink. It looked like something stronger then beer :-)

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26 October, 2008

Bergen history lesson..

Vikings..
Yes we are the Vikings, and we are always ready....

Noo. I'm just joking.

This one is a replica from one of the many ships we had. It was working by sail or by rowing.

It's named after the King Haakon Haakonsson

In the front, they always put some creatures to scare of the enemy

This one is not a Viking.

Here name was "Madam Felle" and in the old days she had a bar/pub where people could come and get drunk..

At the bottom of the statue it shows how they believe it was

Back to old history again.

This is the place of the first woman hospital (st. catherine's hospital)

And now at the end we are entering the Bryggen Museum (Harbor museum)

This is from the old old parts, who was burned down in year 1170

Her is items from excavation and from old buildings in Bergen

Thise one shows toys.

On the right you kan see a early model of a ice skate, there is allso a ball and some other stuff.

This is a model of the old Bergen around year 1200 - 1300

around year 1300 Bergen was a trading center of European importance. The city had between 5 and 10,000, maybe about 7,000 inhabitants, and was clearly the largest and most important in the country. In European standards was a averige big city.

This is one of the Norwegians Kings (Magnus Lagabøte), in old old days Bergen was the capitol of Norway and the place the Kings ruled the country

Thise one shows the clothing and work/home

This was all for now, hope you found it interesting.

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