Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The oldest and most authentic item in the church is the stone baptismal
font. In medieval times, priests conducting baptisms would go outside to shoo
away the evil spirits from an infant before bringing it inside the church for
the ritual. (If infants died before being baptized, they couldn't be buried in the
churchyard, so parents would put their bodies in little coffins and hide them
under the church's floorboards to get them as close as possible to God.)
Explore thedimly lit interior,illuminated onlybytheoriginal, small, circu-
lar windows up high. Notice the X-shaped crosses of St. Andrew (the church's
patron), carvings of dragons, and medieval runes.
Cost and Hours:
75 kr, buy tickets in museum across street, daily mid-
June-mid-Aug 8:00-20:00, May-mid-June and mid-Aug-Sept 10:00-17:00,
closed Oct-April. The museum has a shop and a fine little cafeteria serving
filling and tasty lunches (70-kr soup with bread, tel. 57 66 81 09,
Getting There:
It's about a 30-minute
drive
east of Lærdal, on E-16 (the
road to Oslo—if coming from Aurland or Flåm, consider taking the scenic
