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The Norwegian non-ecclesiastical architecture has partly employed
stone, partly wood for its buildings. Masonry was used chiefly
for bishops’ palaces and convents and for royal castles, while only
wood was used for houses in the country, and generally in the
towns also. The only monastery that has been to some extent
preserved is that of St. Laurence at Utstein, north of Stavanger.
The design here, as well as that evident in ruins elsewhere, is on
the ordinary European plan.

Interesting and fairly well preserved portions of the
archbishop’s [[** vel ikke bindestrek?]] palace in Trondhjem, and some remains of the bishop’s
palaces in Stavanger, Oslo and Hamar still exist.

Among remains of royal castles, some from the 13th century
must be especially mentioned.

Rosenkranz Tower.        Castle of Bergen.        Haakons Hall.

The parts of the castle of Bergen (now Bergenhus) still
remaining are Haakon’s Hall, the Rosenkranz Tower, and parts of
the circular wall. Haakon’s Hall has recently been restored. It
was built between 1247 and 1261, of quarry stone with quoins and
beautiful details of soapstone. The lowest story is a low, dark
basement with a ceiling supported by a succession of beams, above
this a cross-vaulted undercroft, with 3 rooms, and above these
again, the great hall which occupies the entire area of the building,
and measures inside 107 feet by 42 feet, the height of the walls being
23 feet. The roof was an open rafter-roof. Only the lower part of
the great tower to the south of the hall belongs to this period;
the other stories were built by Erik Rosenkrantz, 1560 to 1565.

While Bergenhus was designed principally for a royal palace,
Akershus (at Kristiania) was at first (Haakon V, circ. 1290) a

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