The north portal of the 11th century Urnes stave church has been interpreted as containing depictions of snakes and dragons that represent Ragnarök

It is built on bridges and landfills across small islands and skerries, and spans from the small communities of Vikan and Vevang to Averøy, an island with several historic landmarks, such as the Bremsnes cave with Mesolithic findings from the Fosna culture, the medieval Kvernes stave church, and Langøysund, now a remote fishing community, but once a bustling port along the main coastal route.

The first is the Norway pavilion, a recreation of a traditional wooden stave church which is now preserved at a museum called Little Norway in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.

* Garmo stave church ( built around 1150 )

Sigurd Fåvnesbane featured on the portal plank from Hylestad stave church

Replica of Norwegian stave church at the Hjemkomst Center

The church is a full-scale replica of the Hopperstad stave church in Vik, Norway.

During this time period, the town had one Methodist church, a Masonic lodge, two general stores, multiple grist mills, two saw mills, two tanneries and stave manufacturers and dealers.

There is also a Norwegian stave church, moved here from Vang, Norway in the mid-19th century.

Sogn og Fjordane is also home to the Urnes stave church and Nærøyfjord, which is listed by UNESCO as world heritage sites.

* Nore stave church ( built around 1166-1200 )

* Uvdal Stave Church, a stave church originally constructed just after the year 1168

At Midtskog (), today called Matrand, a stave church was raised in the 12th century.

It was a stave church, and it was by 1686 in very bad condition.

The old stave church was yet again in bad condition, and also too small for the growing community.

The old stave church was then torn down.

A wrought iron ornament, also of the 13th century, which originally decorated the entrance door to the old stave church, is now reused in a 17th century door placed in one of the church's side entrances.

Vågå stave church is the second oldest stave church in the country, which was constructed around 1150 and originally dedicated to St. Peter.

It is blue with gold silhouette of the gilt-copper medieval reliquary ( chasse ) that is still found in the Hedal stave church, but with five blue arches inspired by the arches on a similar medieval chasse from the medieval St. Thomas Church at Filefjell and representing the five Lutheran parishes of the municipality.

The staff sling, also known as the stave sling, fustibalus ( Latin ), fustibale ( French ), consists of a staff ( a length of wood ) with a short sling at one end.

Placed on one of the lines at the beginning of the stave, it indicates the name and pitch of the notes on that line.

The absolute pitch of each line for a non-percussive stave is determined by the placement of an appropriate clef symbol at the appropriate vertical position on the left-hand side of the staff.

When music on two staves is joined by a brace, or is intended to be played at once by a single performer ( usually a keyboard instrument or the harp ), a great stave ( BrE ) or grand staff ( AmE ) is created.

The Flyers won Games 3 and 4 at home to take a 3 – 1 series lead, but Boston won Game 5 to stave off elimination.

The Flyers won Game 4 at home to stave off elimination, and although Timonen returned for Game 5, Pittsburgh finished off the Flyers in 5 games.

The primary employers at the time were a sawmill, a lumber mill, a stave mill, and large and cut timber distributors.

Hegge stave church, at Hegge, was originally constructed in the year 1216 or slightly later.

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Using a device the Trapper employed to stave off Earth's destruction, Superboy saves his Earth, but only at the cost of his own life.

Before long he became possessed of a magnificent bass, which gradually increased in volume until at the age of twenty it attained a compass of two octaves from E-flat below to E-flat above the bass stave.

In 1570 an alliance of non-Catholic Polish Churches, the Lutherans, the Reformed, and the Bohemian Brethren, drew up what is known as the Consensus of Sandomir, effecting a confederation of the work in order to stave off defeat at the hands of the Roman Church.

A tea sandwich is a small prepared sandwich meant to be eaten at afternoon teatime to stave off hunger until the main meal.

The only remaining medieval stave churches outside Norway are one dating to approximately the year 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.

This type of stave church was common at the beginning of the 12th century.

There are also some newer stave churches at various locations.

In Sweden there is a medieval stave church, the Hedared stave church constructed c. 1500, at the same location as a previous older stave church.

* Fåvang stave church in Ringebu, Oppland — rebuilt in 1630 ( two old churches rebuilt as one )

* Ringebu stave church, Oppland — first quarter of the 13th century

Fåvang stave church ( Fåvang stavkirke ) is a stave church located in Fåvang in Ringebu municipality, Gudbrandsdal, Norway.

Ringebu Stave Church () is a stave church located in Ringebu in Ringebu municipality, Gudbrandsdal, Norway.

* Ringebu stave church in Stavkirke. org — in Norwegian

* Ringebu stave church ( site has pages in English, Norwegian and German )