Talk:Stave church

message: I'm tempted to remove this as I can't remember any valid reference to archeological evidence of such temples. Later research indicates that the reason is that there wasn't any such temples. There are although historical references to heathen grounds at the places where many of the churches are built.
The claims of heathen temples often are an attempt to explain the artwork and form of the churches, but this is more likely to come from common art of the time. The building itself is a natural extension of common construction work of the time and does not indicate by itself that the buildings are christian versions of heathen temples.
In fact, many (most?) of the present churches are built on places where there has been earlyer churches. How can this be so? because there are archaeological evidence of previous so called post churches, and often those where built on top of christian burial grounds, with christian graves underneath that church.
No archeological material shows any traces of heathen worshipping underneath any of the standing churches, unfortuneatly...   JOhn, Oslo
Agtfjott 12:24, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Heathen temples

message: Nina, thanks for the reference to Svensk konsthistoria! If at least one reference clearly states that it is a stave church we are on fairly safe ground.
Perhaps we should drop the notion of the official list, at least one seems to argue that this list isn't correct. We could add a reference saying which one are on the list and which one are not, then add a quote from Svanberg if that is important or simply drop it at all.
If the Swedish church is included, then probably Vang and Fåvang has to be included to, and then the reference to the 28 churches (those on the authentic lis) must be changed or removed.
We could rewrite the section "The authentic stave churches", "The official list", "The stave churches on the official list", "The stave churches on the official Norwegian list" or whatever it ends up as into "Old stave churhes" and "Later stave churches". Then move all those built after 1800 into the later section. This would clearly be a much wider time period than usual but hopefully it is acceptable for all and we can move on. Greensted and Hedared would be put into the section "Old stave churches" and the discussion about age, type and distinction between saxon and norse origin have to be taken elsewhere.
Agtfjott 15:25, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting of churches 

message: I was just link-hopping along, and noticed that the introduction to the article is self contradictory. The exact text (second paragraph, emphasis added):
:All of the surviving stave churches except one are in Norway, but related church types were once common all over northwestern Europe. The only remaining medieval stave churches outside Norway are one dating to approximately 1500 located at Hedared in Sweden and one Norwegian stave church that was relocated in 1842 to the outskirts of Krummhübel, Germany, now Karpacz in the Krkonoše mountains of Poland. One other church, the Anglo-Saxon Greensted Church in England, has many similarities but is not universally regarded as a stave church.
I'm not sure how to fix this, especially since I haven't a clue if the they're the 'exceptions' or not. Thedanomyte (talk) 02:22, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  introduction self-contradictory? 

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