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Borgund Stave Church

How has the wooden structure survived for over 840 years?

Borgund Stave Church has been standing through Norwegian snow, rain, and wind for over 840 years.

The trees were prepared for nearly two decades before anyone cut them down.

Workers walked into old-growth pine forests and stripped the chosen trees of their tops and their branches. The trunks stayed standing for fifteen to twenty years. The roots kept pull…

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