Sverresborg
Sverresborg is Trondheim's open-air folk museum, with a collection of old buildings from around Trøndelag. The sod roofs are not just museum pieces in Norway -- some new houses in our neighborhood have sod roofs, and they are ubiquitous on mountain huts as well as old farmhouses.
There is a researcher at NTNU that studies tree rings in samples of wood from old log buildings around Trondheim and Trondelag. By cross-dating the growth patterns he is often able to date buildings that are many hundreds of years old.
A particularly charming interior. Hand-painted motifs on doors and cabinets are common even in many of the older mountain huts, but the ceiling painting is more unusual.
Here is a demonstration of traditional flat bread baking. Zoe is sampling the fresh product.
Other buildings have collections of historical artefacts. This old newspaper ad caught our fancy: "Don't buy American but Norwegian canned meat."
The Trondelag ski museum is also here. Rick would like to take some of these boards out for a spin.
Oat, barley and wheat fields surround the city. The landscape around Trondheim is not as steep as many other parts of Norway, even out of the river valleys, so it has been an important agricultural area since Viking times -- more than 1000 years!