Middelalderparken
Lawns and water around medieval church and royal-estate ruins on the old fjord shoreline.
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This guide to Middelalderparken in Oslo starts with two city birthdays held just fifty years apart, and a sum that refuses to work. It follows the saga of Harald Hardrada, the warrior king credited with founding the town, and an archaeologist who began digging under the ruins of St. Clement's Church in nineteen seventy. Best heard standing by the low stone outlines of the church.
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