TRONDHEIM, Norway — Also known as the Old Kings’ Road, St. Olav’s Way is one of the northernmost pilgrim trails in the world. Stretching 400 miles, the medieval pilgrimage route starts in the ...
"Stay to your left heading toward a grove of large trees, then turn right at the red barn and go a little up and over." That was the sort of instruction in the Norwegian guidebook we were translating ...
The path through the pine forest is carpeted with wild strawberries. It emerges on to a trail crossing fields of rippling barley and continues up to the Feginsbrekka, or “Hill of Joy”, the point where ...
Following one of the nine St. Olav Ways, a photographer trudged with soggy feet through tundras, forests and wetlands. Here’s what she saw. A stone marker along a pilgrimage trail in Forollhogna ...
St Olav's Way in Norway, the Church of England's discussion on its 'Vision for Education' at this week's Synod and two Rabbis take a look at a new report on Jewish intermarriage. Show more Ed Stourton ...
After the Reformation, Norway's Olav Haraldsson was no longer supposed to be worshipped as a saint. An Icelandic drinking horn offers some clues on how the saint’s status changed over time. After the ...
'Only six people from Britain have travelled through this year,' Stig Grytting informs me as I gorge on a divinely succulent and gargantuan serving of lambs legs selected from his own animal stock at ...
The burial place of St Olaf, Norway's patron saint, was once Christianity's fourth most important pilgrimage destination, ranking only behind Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela. Tourism ...
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