Lyse kloster ruiner
Ruined twelfth-century Cistercian abbey with chancel walls, priests' seats and a cloister arcade.
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This audio guide to the Lyse Abbey ruins near Bergen starts at a row of stone niches in the chancel wall and asks where the rest of Norway's first Cistercian abbey went. It follows the Yorkshire monks who built it and the farms that made it rich, then the Danish crown's Reformation of fifteen thirty-six. Stand by the south wall of the chancel to begin.
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