Why Norway's Churches Look Weird

This is is a video about Norway's stave churches and how they are different from the more masonry, stone based churches in continental Europe.

Hexworld = based on @Erindale's work.

Music:

Intro and Outro song composed by David Ko.

The link for the sources (Ill organize them later, sorry):

[hoogyoutube]

Corrections/nuances:

Eastern European wood churches are great and beautiful, but they're not the same as Norway's.

I do not mean that all stone buildings are built out of soapstone, but I mean that of the limited stone buildings, some are built out of soapstone, which is atypical.

[SebbDahl]

Dude, I'm Norwegian and I've never seen my culture being visualized this beautifully. Thank you Sir! Truly great stuff

[HisMajestyWalrus]

These animations are getting better and more unique than any other creator I've seen. Keep up the great work.

[vkdrk]

These churches are really interesting and they remind me of those built in parts of Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Romania. They are not the same but very similar, Norwegian churches are generally taller and their religion is slightly different. I grew up in Slovakia where you can find many wooden churches (there are 59 wooden churches in Slovakia). I'd like to see those in Norway one day :)

[antebellumstage]

I from a small costal city on the west coast of Norway. And there used to be a stave church here. But It fell in decay (13th century) and eventually got replaced by a more traditional looking church. Many stave churches on the west coast suffered the same fate, as the west coast has way rougher weather then the mountain range protected east. This explains why you'll barely find any Stave churches on the wast Coast, and tons in the east.

[nadiaulrich]

Those animations are insane 😍 love the clean, yet so detailed and recognisable style!

[lillm]

Great video 😍😍

I’m proud of our churches, especially the stave churches💕
I live in a small community, population just below 1600.
We have in total 6 wooden churches, and two of them are stave churches, beautiful 😍

[AndromedaCripps]

My ancestors are Norwegian and I have always loved the uniqueness and ancient wisdom of Stave Churches. So cool to hear more about them here!

[jacoboleary]

Worth mentioning the Wooden Churches of Maramures in Romania, built much later but remarkably similar in style to
Norwegian stave churches!

[TiesOfZip]

Wow. Those clips with the live shots of the church and surrounding area are some of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

[lucasphilippini]

One of my favorite channels ever. Keep up the great job

[miramuchachito]

This is whitout a doubt one of the most beautiful channels around. Just a pleasure to watch . I love it. More please

[federicomadden]

The man did it. This madman actually used Fennoscandia in a sentence

[jesusschizus]

Interesting fact: in Poland we have one Norwegian church- St. Vang, which was deconstructed, transported to Poland and build back again. Warm greetings from Poland to all Norwegians. ❤️

[matfhju]

I think this might bee the most comprihensive video on stave churches i have ever seen. Being norwegian i knew most of this from before but this video puts everything i knew about them and then some and everything is crammed in at under 12 minuts. Most other videoes spends 12 munuts just explaining the staves or the tar ( and other details)

Greate Job on this video

[kajull]

Hoog doesn't post often, but when he does it's worth the wait every time, and watching the videos is no choice, you see it you click instantly

[TheEightfoldPath_]

5:40, this process didn't just affect the roots. The part of the tree that is usually classified as "heartwood" greatly increased as resin also saturated a larger portion of the tree. This meant the subsequent material was stronger and more resistant to moisture and fungi due to the properties of the resin.

We have an old smithy that has recently been converted into the living room of a house, and the bottom logs (while have been resting on a foundation wall made of rocks) looked like new when it was cut into. The logs were laid down ~500 years ago at that point. The smell was like when you cut into fairly new and dry pine lumber too.

[marekdg]

There are a lot of wooden churches in the middle/eastern part of Europe.
If anybody is interested search for the following:
- Wooden churches of Southern Lesser Poland 🇵🇱
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland 🇵🇱 and Ukraine 🇺🇦

You’ll find a whole list of these churches on Wikipedia

[Untilitpases]

Beautiful break-down of the process, necessity and thought-delivery pace.

[averyc]

These animations look great!
You should look into changing the 'subsurface radius' settings in your shaders, as I noticed they all use the Blender default which is actually tuned for flesh.
This doesn't affect the surface color in the same way changing 'subsurface color' does as they just affect how far each color is scattered through the object.