The Norwegian Folk Museum isn't really a folk museum in the
traditional, "here we demonstrate how to make candles with rendered
animal fat" kind of place. It is instead a huge collection of
classic buildings from the 1200s on (although there are a few exhibits
and demonstrations included). It's interesting to see the
buildings slowly evolve from one or two room cabins with sod roofs and
open hearths to multi story farm buildings with tile roofs and
fireplaces.
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Inside was a stave church from 1200, moved piece by piece from Gol
and restored and reassembled on site (A stave church is a medieval
wooden Christian church building with a structure of post and lintel
construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine
posts are called stafr in Old Norse). I found it funny that the
runes on one of the staves in the nave can be read as “Kiss me, because
I struggle,” I line I have used in the past with little success.
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In one building, they made Lefse, a soft Norwegian flatbread, in
the traditional way, by shoveling coals under a large metal plate to
cook the riced potato dough.
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There was also a demonstration of weaving. Not the "I've
had too much to drink" kind of weaving. Like, making traditional
Scandinavian blanket kind of weaving.
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