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A Stave Church for Iceland. The Book

The book A Stave Church for Iceland (ed. E.Seip) is richly illustrated and offers a thorough, yet entertaining presentation of the stave church project; historic background, the building process and the reconstruction work. The text is in English, Icelandic and Norwegian.

The prize is NOK 150 and it may be ordered right here.

   The stave church
The reconstruction of St Olav frontal

Project leader: Terje Norsted, researcher and paintings conservator at NIKU.
Participants: Wood-carver Svein Atle Wiik, Oslo University,
and paintings conservator Brit Heggenhougen, NIKU
About this website

Texts by Terje Norsted, translation by Rory Dunlop, Terje Norsted and Grete Gundhus.
Photo by Arve Kjersheim, Birger R. Lindstad, Anne T. Winterthun, Brit Heggenhougen and Terje Norsted.
Navigation and design by Elisabeth Mølbach.
IT consultant Bjørg Pettersen.
Edited by Grete Gundhus.
Published: July 2001

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Literature

Danbolt, Gunnar. 1988. Bilde som tale. St. Olavs-antemensalet i Nidarosdomen. - I: Kunst og kultur. - Oslo, s. 138-158.

Fett, Harry. 1917. Norges malerkunst i middelalderen. - Kristiania, s. 149-153.

Gunnes, Erik. 1976. Rikssamling og kristning 800-1177. – I: Knut Mykland (red.) Norges historie, bd. 2. – Oslo, s. 230-271.

Plahter, Unn. 1995. Colours and pigments used in Norwegian altar frontals. - I: Norwegian Medieval Altar Frontals and Related Material. Papers from the conference in Oslo 16-19 December 1989 (Acta ad archaeologicam et historiam artium pertinentia XI). - Roma, s. 111-126.

Plahter, Unn. 1995. Líkneskjusmíd: 14th-century instructions for painting from Iceland. – I: Norwegian Medieval Altar Frontals and Related Material. Papers from the conference in Oslo 16-19 December 1989 (Acta ad archaeologicam et historiam artium pertinentia XI). – Roma, s. 157-171.

Plahter, Unn. 1997. Alterfrontaler. – I: Kirkja og kirkjuskrud. Kirker og kirkekunst på Island og i Norge i middelalderen. – Reykjavík, s. 77-84.

Plahter, Unn. 1998. Frontalet fra Trondheim. En teknisk undersøkelse. – Universitetets Oldsaksamling. Upublisert rapport.

Lindblom, Andreas. 1916. La peinture gothique en Suède et en Norvège. - Stockholm, s. 154-161.

Norsted, Terje. 2000. Olavsfrontalet. – I: Elisabeth Seip (red.) En stavkirke til Island. Stafkirkja rís á Íslandi. A stave church for Iceland. - NIKU Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, Oslo: 99-107.

Sturlasson, Snorre. 1957. Kongesagaer. – Oslo, s. 210-482.

Unset, Ingvald. 1878. Et gammelt Antependiums-Maleri fra Throndhjem. - I: Ny Illustreret Tidende. - København.

White, Raymond. 1995. Analyses of Norwegian medieval paint media. A preliminary report. – I: Norwegian Medieval Altar Frontals and Related Material. Papers from the conference in Oslo 16-19 December 1989 (Acta ad archaeologicam et historiam artium pertinentia XI). – Roma, s. 128-135.

Wichstrøm, Anne. 1981. Maleriet i høymiddelalderen. - I: Norges kunsthistorie. Bind 2. - Oslo, s. 252-314.

Wiik, Svein A. 1995. Líkneskjusmid. Medieval polychrome technique in Iceland. – I: Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung. 9. årg, hefte 2, s. 327-336.
 
 
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