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After our hike up and down Mt. Fløyen, on Wednesday April 16, 2019, 
we wound up (it was deliberate) by Bergenhus Festning or the Bergen
Fortress.  It dates back to the 1240s and the reign of King Håkon 
Håkonsson (was his son Håkonssonsson or Håkonggrandson?).  We walked
around the inside permimeter.  Just beyond the wall (which has a 
respectable drop, along with signs providing warnings) is the main road
and harbor area for large commerical shipping boats.  
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I don't think any of the buildings were open while we were there 
but people could walk around them.  The Rosenkranz Tower 
(Rosenkrantztårnet) was under rennovation, covered with scaffolding,
so I couldn't get any good pictures of it, and couldn't go inside
since it was late enough in the day.

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001-DSC_2526-header: Viking Kung Fu!
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While approaching the Fortress, I saw two people in an empty 
parking lot.  The woman was training the man in sword use,
and they had long wooden poles to simulate the swords.  
Most of the time they were just talking, but on occasion they 
would do something suggesting there would be some action.
I waited a bit and took a few pictures, but was hoping for
more action and witty repartee.  <br/><br/>
This 4 frame animation is akin to cheap paper-doll animation
with little regard to what was really happening or even keeping 
things lined up, since I took the pictures from two different angles.
There was a woman who was walking in the background in frames
3 and 4.  I cropped her out of frame 4 (you can see the edge of
her shadow when the guy is trying to slice his master&apos;s head 
off), and I edited her out of the frame using Photoshop and its
frighteningly good context-aware filling.
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<img src="/images/Photos/Norway2019/6-Bergenhus_Festning/viking-fu.gif">
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001-DSC_2526: A modern gate surrounding the fortress.
006-DSC_2531: The fortress wall.
007-DSC_2532: The entrance, labeled Sortieporten.  The sortie gate.
Like exit gate perhaps?  Or where troups can go in and out.
This is where we entered the fortress.  It's number 20 on 
<a href='http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-single.py?id=NOR2019f;num=24'> this map</a>.
008-DSC_2535: Wider view of the entrance through the wall.
009-DSC_2536: An information plaque on the Battle of Bergen Harbour
(August 2nd, 1665), the only time the fortress was in a battle.
010-DSC_2537: General Mansbach's Avenues (alléer), named for the
Fortress Commander from 1828 to 1838.
011-DSC_2538: A statue of King Haakon VII, Prince Carl of Denmark, 
was the first king of Norway when it separated from Sweden in 1905.
He reigned from 1905 to 1957.  His 
<a href='http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=NOR2019q#028'>
portrait</a> is in the creepy portrait gallery City Hall in Oslo, making
him look like Giant Man (which is saying something, among Scandenavians).

012-DSC_2539: A row of cannons, side view.
013-DSC_2540: A row of cannons, quarter view.
014-DSC_2541: A cannon front view.
015-DSC_2542: A cannon, the business end.
016-DSC_2543: Intelligent Norwegian Dendrite Trees with Håkonshallen 
to the right.
017-DSC_2544: The view of the Bergen peninsula from the top of 
fortress wall.  The sign says: THE FORTRESS WALLS ARE STEEP - BE CAREFUL
018-DSC_2545: Håkonshallen (Håkon's Hall), built in the 13th century
during the reign of King Håkon Håkonsson was the largest building of the 
royal palace.
019-DSC_2546: Another view of Håkonshallen. 
020-DSC_2548: The edge of the Fortress, beyond is the Vågen Bay.
021-DSC_2549: The top of the wall by Håkonshallen.
022-festning_Panorama: A panoramic shot of Håkonshallen.  The pictures didn't
have full coverage and I didn't want to crop out the top corner or just
fill it in with blue, which is why it's white in the top right corner.
024-DSC_2553: Håkon Håkonssons ringmur (girdle-wall).  1200-tallet 
(13th century).
025-DSC_2554: Håkon Håkonssons andre steinhall (Håkon Håkonsson's second 
stone hall).
026-DSC_2559: The entranace to Håkonshallen in Bergenhus Festning.
027-DSC_2560: Portkastellet (gatehouse).
028-DSC_2561: A lamp on the side of Håkon's Hall.
028-Bergenhus_Festning_Panorama: Panorama of place courtyard (Slottsgården).  
See <a
href='http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-single.py?id=NOR2019f;num=24'>
map</a> for building names.
029-DSC_2562: Map of the places within Bergenhus Festning.
030-DSC_2564: The right edge of the map: Walks at Bergenhus.
031-DSC_2565: The entrance to the Rosenkrantz Tower.  It was after 4pm
so it was not open.
032-DSC_2566: Information on Rosenkrantz Tower (Rosenkrantztårnet).
033-DSC_2567: Scaffolding around Rosenkrantz Tower (Rosenkrantztårnet).
034-DSC_2568: The Portkastellet (gatehouse) entrance to Bergenhus Festning.
035-DSC_2569: A sign that says <i>FARE</I> (danger).  The drop (wall&apos;s 
end) is just past it.
036-DSC_2570: A monument to something relating to the Nobel Prize and
Peace Service.  The date, 1905, was when Norway split from Sweden.
037-DSC_2571: Everybody was <i>still</i> kung fu fighting (behind the van).
038-DSC_2572: Looking down from the top of the fortress wall.
040-DSC_2577: The main gate (Hovedporten) to Bergenhus Festning.

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