{"id":19389,"date":"2024-03-01T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19389"},"modified":"2024-03-01T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T02:24:23","slug":"nidaros-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19389","title":{"rendered":"Nidaros Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trondheim&#039;s Nidaros Cathedral: Full Tour of Norway&#039;s Most Famous Church\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WYNmFZv-n38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>So, I&#8217;m working away<\/strong> at &#8216;The Baldur Game,&#8217; which I think is going to be a pretty good book. Better than pretty good, to be honest. Not that I&#8217;m unprejudiced. But this one&#8217;s a genuine epic &#8212; broad canvas, big action, historical figures, battles and obsession. The Viking book I always wanted to write, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, above, a little video of a tour of Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. This is where King (Saint) Olaf, a major character in this book, was buried. I believe his bones are still in there somewhere, but nobody&#8217;s sure exactly where (supposedly they were hidden to keep them from relic smashers during the Reformation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I visited there once, briefly. It was part of a tour in connection with one of the cruises I lectured on. By good luck, they were doing a medieval fair in the Bishop&#8217;s Palace area that day. Fun to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to my mother, my great-grandfather, her mother&#8217;s father, worked on the cathedral restoration in the 1880s. He came from a farm not far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a good weekend. My book is coming &#8212; possess your souls in patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m working away at &#8216;The Baldur Game,&#8217; which I think is going to be a pretty good book. Better than pretty good, to be honest. Not that I&#8217;m unprejudiced. But this one&#8217;s a genuine epic &#8212; broad canvas, big action, historical figures, battles and obsession. The Viking book I always wanted to write, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nidaros Cathedral<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[2012,3731,4414,3202],"class_list":["post-19389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-writing","tag-nidaros-cathedral","tag-saint-olaf","tag-the-baldur-game","tag-trondheim"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19390,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19389\/revisions\/19390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}