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27-SEP-2010 Kenneth Christian

Haakon's Great Hall

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The great hall is 33 meters long, 13 meters wide, and 17 meters high to the ridge. Light flows in through a row of seven two-piece Gothic windows in the west wall. Both the windows and the arcading behind the high table have been reconstructed from archaeological remains. Much of the old stonework was preserved, almost to the top of the long walls. The gables, however, had to be largely reconstructed, since the Hall in its days as storehouse had a hipped roof. The external stepped gables were reconstructed on based on a print from around 1580.


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