This is a famous church in Trondheim, Norway that I have had the good luck to visit twice, once this past summer. You will see part of the reason for its fame below-
It is built over the burial site of King Olav II (c. 995–1030) who hasn’t had a sound night’s sleep since.
The entire front of the church is covered with very well crafted statues of famous religious heroes of Norway. Some of them are rather amusing, mostly in a dark sort of way.
I don’t remember his name, but this was a bishop who was beheaded. Here you can see him here holding his own head in his hands.
This gentlemen lost his head too, but only the top of it. The statue dittos that.
I don’t know who this guy is, but he has the intesting hobby of collecting other people’s heads.
He is nobody that I would want to be living next door to…….
On the lighter side of things a rather risque Adam and Eve are kicked out of Eden, which hopefully wasn’t in Norway because they would have froze to death at the wrong time of year.
Here you have a rather shameless woman exposing her womany bounty in a way you would NEVER dare do inside the church which is maybe why you have the guy to her lower right trying to squeeze out for a peek at her……
Here if you look closely you have a rather small fellow trying to squeeze out from under the horribly rude and haughty man standing on top of him in the middle. You can see it much better in the expanded shot below that was not given a hack job by the sites censor. (the demon to the right of him doesn’t look too happy either).
And, lastly, you have a number of small faces above and between the full figured statue who were not granted bodies by the stone smith, but they seem doing all right despite that.