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.

The stave church at Ringebu, built around the year 1220, is one of fewer than 30 surviving stave churches and is one of the largest.

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.

Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.

The target was Allied shipping -- a desperate effort to stave off the Allied invasion of Europe.

The company laid off 70, 000 workers but was able to stave off Socialist unrest by continuing severance pay and its famous social services for workers.

The Macedonian phalanx was not very different from the Hoplite phalanx of other Greeks states, save it was better trained, armed with the sarissa enabling it to outreach its competitors and stave off enemy cavalry, and wore far lighter armor enabling longer endurance and long fast forced marches, including the ability to sprint to close and overwhelm opposing positions and archers.

Lee suffered 32, 907 Confederate casualties, on troops he could not replace, and was forced to take defensive entrenchment positions to stave off attack on Richmond.

Unlike the Old English word god ( and Old Norse ), the term () was never adopted into Christian use and survived only in a secularized meaning of " pole, beam, stave, hill " or " yoke ".

With the Allied victory over Germany becoming certain in 1944, the only option to save Estonia's independence was to stave off a new Soviet invasion of Estonia until Germany's capitulation.

Blake points out that if Peel were convinced that total repeal was necessary to stave off the famine, he would have enacted a bill that brought about immediate temporary repeal, not permanent repeal over a three-year period of gradual tapering-off of duties.

The latter was the only important piece he composed between December 1860 and August 1863: the reasons for this probably lie in the painful re-emergence of his subjective crisis in 1860 and the purely objective difficulties which resulted from the emancipation of the serfs the following year – as a result of which the family was deprived of half its estate, and Mussorgsky had to spend a good deal of time in Karevo unsuccessfully attempting to stave off their looming impoverishment.

For many years after the introduction of cannon the powder was introduced into the bore by means of a scoop-shaped ladle fixed to the end of a long stave.

Unable to achieve victory, he was able to stave off defeat until a diplomatic solution was reached.

Enterprise was able not only to stave off disaster, but found its economy renewed by a thriving new crop base.

The first industry was a stave and spoke factory located where Kwik Trip now stands by the railroad.

The campaign's aim was not only to stave off any potential increase in crossing charges, but to ultimately see the costs abolished.

Danny Wilson was sacked in March 2000 and his assistant Peter Shreeves took temporary charge but was unable to stave off relegation.

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

It is believed that the church was originally surrounded by a circumambulatory passage, like many other Norwegian stave churches, but that this passage was removed when the two side wings were added.

Garmo stave church originally came from Garmo in Lom in Oppland county.

The water was originally conveyed from the dam via a 2. 2 kilometre wood stave pipeline.

The wood stave pipeline originally joined two steel penstock pipes which dropped 330 meters to the power station building in the Yolande Valley below.

It was originally projected to exhaust in 2001, but number pooling was implemented to stave off exhaustion.

Gol Stave Church () is a stave church originally from Gol, Hallingdal, Norway.

Like the stave churches themselves the reliquary is ornamented with dragon-heads on its gables, a feature which several Norwegian medieval reliquaries share and which might have been originally inspired by similar dragon-heads on the silver gilt reliquary of St. Olav on the enshrined on the high altar of the Nidaros Cathedral.

The church is a four-post single-nave stave church originally built around 1200 in the parish of Vang in the Valdres region of Norway.

Haltdalen Stave Church () is a stave church originally from Haltdalen in the municipality of Holtålen in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway.