Explore the St Margaret’s church

Technology makes it possible to experience something that no longer exists.

Today we see the ruins of the church of St Margaret, which was located in the medieval town of Borgund. By combining research with digital tools, we can visualize what the church might have looked like.

How do we know?
We can begin to gain an understanding of the bigger picture by combining knowledge from different disciplines. The historian reads and interprets documents, the art historian looks at art and architecture, while the archaeologist looks for traces of buildings, roads, jetties and objects.

St Margaret’s church
Borgund was the biggest church town between Bergen and Trondheim in the Middle Ages. It was a natural stopping place for pilgrims travelling by sea to Nidaros.

On the headland in the Borgundfjord lie the ruins of the church of St Margaret, one of four medieval churches mentioned in the sources. The oldest source to describe the church is the last will and testament of the nobleman Bjarne Erlingsson in 1309.

The church was a Romanesque long church, probably dating from the 12th century, built from stone and marble. It measured around 20 by 10 metres.

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