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Originally Posted by Valgeir
The article says the church find is supposed to be nearly 1000 years old, and then continues saying christianity may be older in Norway than supposed. This doesnt match up. Christianity was introduced 800-1000 AD, and if the this church was buildt in year 1000, then it comes at proper time, and may have been the first or of the first churches.
However, there is no proof that it truly was a christian church, the stavchurches was not christian.
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Though I agree I must stress that if it is a
church it can only be
christian; churches are buildings for christian worship and created with that purpose since no other religion has "churches". There are, of course, cases where other religious buildings (altars, temples, etc) where turned into churches and that is the case with stave churches: they were built has christian churchs.
There are literally thousands of articles that dismiss any "pagan" origin for stave churches:
http://www.stavechurch.org/
http://www.arild-hauge.com/echurch.htm
http://odin.dep.no/odin/engelsk/norw...000-b-n-a.html