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The cathedral at the end of the world

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DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2024/08/the-cathedral-at-the-end-of-the-world/

Trondheim’s Nidaros Cathedral is full of secrets, messages from the past written in stone. One researcher is now decoding these missives, half hidden in a very special spot in and around the most sacred place in the church.

Nobelmen and women, in fancy clothing and pearls – but with dragon wings and tails. A laughing man with a full head of curly hair. Lions biting the ears off a man whose mouth is full of writhing serpents.

These may sound like a weird combination of a gothic novel and a nightmare, but it’s something completely different – a description of some of the eerie and surprising sculptures in Nidaros Cathedral, the northernmost gothic cathedral in the world.

But what were the messages that stonemasons and religious leaders were trying to send visitors to the cathedral – and how do we interpret these messages hundreds of years later?

DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2024/08/the-cathedral-at-the-end-of-the-world/
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