The drama of the Norwegian landscape is striking. Fiords with sea water stretch far into the mountains, as deep as the surrounding mountains are high. Crystal clear lakes, countless wild rapids and winding narrow roads. Here and there traces of human presence, a group of houses clinging on to the steep flanks. And the stave churches, dark wooden reminders of a transition period long ago when the old gods and the new had to share roof. Today only 28 of them still standing since almost a millennium...