Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Wooden Sculpture

This wooden structure, or may I say sculpture, has grown up in the center of Stavanger.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Sculpture of a Møbius Strip

This sculpture is located outside the modern art museum next to the Mosvatnet lake. On the right you see part of the bench I posted few days ago.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Viking Heritage

This sculpture is in memory of Harald Fairhair or Harald Finehair (Norwegian: Harald Hårfagre c. 850 – c. 933). He was the first king (872 – 930) of Norway.

Little is known of the historical Harald. The only contemporary sources mentioning him are the two skaldic poems Haraldskvæði and Glymdrápa, by Þorbjörn Hornklofi. The first poem describes life at Harald's court, mentions that he took a Danish wife, and that he won a victory at Hafrsfjord. The second relates a series of battles Harald has won. He is not mentioned in any contemporary foreign sources. His life was described in several of the Kings' sagas, but the first of these were not written until the end of the 12th century, over 250 years after his death. Their accounts of Harald and his life differ on several points, and much of the content is clearly mythological. He is credited with having unified Norway into one kingdom. Modern historians assume that his rule was limited to the coastal areas of southern Norway.

Source: Wikipedia.