Urnes (other)
Urnes may refer to: * Urnes Style * Urnes Stave Church, whose doorway carvings gave the name to the style See also * Urne (other) * Urness Urness is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ted Urness (1937–2018), American football player *Zoë Marieh Urness Zoë Marieh Urness (born 1984) is a photographer of Alaskan Tlingit and Cherokee Native American heritage. She ...

Urnes Style
Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the 8th-11th centuries. Viking art has many design elements in common with Celtic, Germanic, the later Romanesque and Eastern European art, sharing many influences with each of these traditions. Generally speaking, the current knowledge of Viking art relies heavily upon more durable objects of metal and stone; wood, bone, ivory and textiles are more rarely preserved. The artistic record, therefore, as it has survived to the present day, remains significantly incomplete. Ongoing archaeological excavation and opportunistic finds, of course, may improve this situation in the future, as indeed they have in the recent past. Viking art is usually divided into a sequence of roughly chronological styles, although outside Scandinavia itself local influences are ofte ...
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Urnes Stave Church
Urnes Stave Church ( no, Urnes stavkyrkje) is a 12th-century stave church at Ornes, along the Lustrafjorden in the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. The church sits on the eastern side of the fjord, directly across the fjord from the village of Solvorn and about east of the village of Hafslo. It is among the oldest stave churches in Norway, with parts of the lumber construction dating from the latter half of the 11th century. The church was built in a long church basilica plan inspired by medieval Christian churches, with cylindrical columns and semi-circular arches inside. The decoration on capitals of the columns and outside of the church embodies the visual evidence of the Viking culture’s transformation, assimilation, and adoption of Christianity. The north portal of the church is defined as the Urnes style, which contains decorations derived from Norwegian mythology dating back to the 12th century. It has been owned by Fortidsminneforeningen (Socie ...
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Urne (other)
Urne may refer to: People * Christoffer Urne (1593–1663), Danish civil servant * Jørgen Knudsen Urne (1598–1642), Danish nobleman * Renate Urne (born 1982), Norwegian handball player Places * Urne, Wisconsin, United States See also * Urnes (other) Urnes may refer to: * Urnes Style * Urnes Stave Church, whose doorway carvings gave the name to the style See also * Urne (other) * Urness Urness is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ted Urness (1937–2018), Ameri ...