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fortress. It has been added to and altered time after time, and
acquired its present general appearance in the time of Christian IV.

The ruins of Magnus Lagabøter’s castle on Slotsbjerget, near
Tønsberg, are of special interest. The castle was built entirely of
brick, and richly ornamented with moulded and glazed tiles,
and with a highly plastic ornament. As it is quite evident that
the brick was produced at the brick-fields to the north of
Slotsbjerget, it shows that by the close of the 13th century,
brick-making had developed in Norway as in the rest of Europe.

But the remarkable decline in the economic condition of the
country in the 14th century, also resulted in the cessation of
activity in this department. There is, however, a large castle
on Stenviksholm, near Trondhjem, built by Olav Engelbrektson
(1523—36), the last Catholic archbishop. Its ruins have lately
been uncovered.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, especially in the
newly-founded [[** sjk]] Kristiania, a considerable number of brick buildings were
erected of imported brick, and give evidence of mechanical skill,
and to some extent also, especially in their interior decoration, of
artistic feeling.

The ordinary country houses were originally designed in the
form of a number of small buildings surrounding a yard, almost
every one of the rooms necessary for the working of the farm being
an independent, and often separate, building (cf. page 326). The
buildings are always of wood, and the roofs are still frequently
covered with turf. Where a more ornamental style is employed,
the form, in the case of the older buildings, corresponds with that
of the stav churches. The round and trefoil arches, etc. of the
Norman Romanesque style appear, while Gothic forms are seldom
met with.

The later buildings, on the other hand, especially from the
17th and 18th centuries display the Renaissance and Rococo styles,
often in an intelligent and original adaption according to the
material and nature of the building.

The dwelling-room had an open roof, in the middle of which
was the smoke-hole. This could be closed from below with a
close-fitting shutter. There were originally no windows.

Immediately below the smoke-hole was the hearth (aren).
Legend relates that Olav Kyrre had the hearth-stone replaced
by stoves, undoubtedly the so-called smoke-stoves, that are still to

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